fashion-plate

fashion plate

noun
1.
a person who consistently wears the latest style in dress.
2.
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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