Alicia Silverstone

Alicia Silverstone

Anna Kendrick

Barbara Palvin

Katheryn Winnick

Jennifer Connelly

Jenna Ortega

Blake Lively, 2008

Rachel Zegler

Jennifer Love Hewitt

Kristen Stewart

Samara Weaving

Zendaya

Alexandra Daddario

Billie eilish

Jill Hennessy

Zooey Deschanel

Evan Rachel Wood

Keira Knightley

Linda Cardellini

"Young Man in the Costume of a Majo," Edouard Manet, 1863.

Manet hardly needs an introduction. But here he paints his brother in the costume of a majo, or lower-class Spanish dandy. Majos and majas would dress in exaggerated versions of traditional Spanish dress (like that impossibly broad sash!), be well mannered but cheeky, and sometimes would pick fights with the "Frenchified" upper classes who were abandoning traditional Spanish styles.

Dressing up as a majo or maja was a thrill for upper-crust Spaniards, though Goya would paint a number of portraits of noblewomen as majas. The maja image itself, with comb and mantilla, flouncy dress and fan, became so iconic that it outlasted the majo style and became a cliche in its own right. The majo, sadly, has been replaced with the bullfighter.

I love his pose, and that snazzy outfits as a whole...but these days folks would be puzzled by a majo outfit at Halloween...

From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Scarlett Johansson

Emma Watson

Alexandra Daddario

Hailee Steinfeld

Ana De Armas

Scarlett Johansson

Leighton Meester

Anna Kendrick

Victoria Justice

Emmy Rossum

Brie Larson

Elizabeth Olsen

Keira Knightley

Daisy Ridley

Jenna Ortega

Ella Purnell

Jenna Ortega

Jennifer Lawrence

Lindsay Lohan

Christina Hendricks