What do we Wear?
Both genders have common wardrobe, depending in the group you play with you can wear “gala” (silver or gold ornaments on the dress items) or “grecka” (sewn designs on the dress items). We in Mariachi San Jose where dark navy blue cloth, with white and gold grecka, and on the back of our Jackets we have MSJ sewn into the back which stands for Mariachi San Jose.
As to ladies were they wear a long skirt, vest, and Jackets, ladies do wear a bow in their hair which is called a ”moňo” which could range from being flowers in the hair or just big bows made out of ribbon beads and glitter, lots and lots of glitter. We do also wear earrings but it's your choice on the one you want to wear.
Everybody needs to look the same because then we stand out from everybody else that see us, this is how we unify our mariachi community to be us. Each gender wears something different, males where pants suit, vest and jackets. We all wear black boots, that are shiny, and under our dress items we were a white shirt.