fashion plate

Example Sentences

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“With two hundred quid you could look like a fashion plate,” he says.

From Los Angeles Times

Moves up to the front and looks over at the soundboard, standing at the back almost alone, a fashion plate in his sky blue mohair cardigan and plum wide-legged pants.

From New York Times

Trinitie is no less of a fashion plate than her husband, favoring elaborate hats and designer dresses.

From Seattle Times

It was Margaret, the rebel, who was renowned as a fashion plate in Dior and other designers, and her influence on Elizabeth was tangible.

From Seattle Times

Research from two consulting historians, paintings, fashion plates and digitized museum collections guided the team toward the asymmetrical draping, heavy embroidery and sometimes clashing, ultra-vivid colors of the 1880s.

From Los Angeles Times