fashion plate

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noun

a person who consistently wears the latest style in dress.

an illustration showing the prevailing or new fashion in clothes.

Origin:
1850–55

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fashion plate

—n
1.	an illustration of the latest fashion in dress
2.	a fashionably dressed person

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