But then, he'd never been much of a fashion plate.

She was no fashion plate but liked to look her best.

Which stars stepped up to the fashion plate in 2010?

Can yesterday's gossip make the picture anything more than a fashion plate?

Not that I was being turned from a slob to a fashion plate.

"How you can put yourself together like some fashion plate in under two minutes," she complained and hurried out of the room.

No one would mistake me for a fashion plate, but at least I could pass myself off as a grown-up.

Several photographs in the catalogue show that the Duke was a fashion plate at a very young age.

The fashion plate wants to be recognized as an old-fashioned hockey player.

The girls are expected to be living fashion plates," says the editor of a London trade paper.

She's a fashion plate and tiny, a size zero.

"I'll not be after dressing up like some fashion plate for showings-if I come at all."

Mr. Brown himself was something of a fashion plate.

"You heard the old crow of an aunt," she said, tearing at the brown paper around the fashion plates.

"She looked like a head-on collision between a fashion plate and a nightmare."

The messenger was a short butterball and a cracked fashion plate.

Christ himself was not exactly a fashion plate.

After all, who else can bring the big wolf down to size and turn the little wolf into a fashion plate?

Does she worry about being typecast as a smart-mouthed fashion plate?

Beside him, a wasp-waisted fashion plate leaned over a tiny radio.

Jimmy's never going to be a fashion plate.

I'm a fashion plate, he thought, and chuckled softly.

Cayla turned in an instant from fashion plate to fishwife.

If he dresses badly, don't be a fashion plate.

Accessorizing, as every tight-budget fashion plate knows, is the secret.

Several photographs in the catalogue show that the Duke was a fashion plate at a very young age.

Jimmy's never going to be a fashion plate.

If he dresses badly, don't be a fashion plate.

I love the fact that even though she is a fashion plate, Victoria just lets her boys be boys!

He was a fashion plate even then.

In his beautifully tailored suit and understated tie, Harding is a fashion plate.

People don't talk about it because it feels superficial, but it's tough being a fashion plate.

By comparison, Dana was a fashion plate.

The man was a fashion plate.

Tracee Ellis Ross is a fashion plate.

Coming from the world of fashion magazines, he naturally portrayed every queen and princess in front of his lens as if she were a fashion plate.

Anyway, the dismaying thing here is not that a reporter is a fashion plate with oh-so-perfect makeup or that a deputy mayor is her significant other.

Deucalion stepped across the threshold into a wide but shabby hallway 'And me," he said drily, "I've always been a fashion plate."

"My 7-year-old daughter Emma is a fashion plate in training, and whenever I come downstairs wearing anything she doesn't approve of, I get, 'Daaaadd, you're not wearing that, are you?' "

Although funny lady Tina Fey doesn't exactly consider herself to be a fashion plate (she once inadvertently purchased a pair of "mom jeans"), she graces March's issue of Vogue and looks absolutely fabulous!

The real Ella Grasso may not have been a fashion plate, but there is hardly a picture of her that doesn't suggest she had a head worthy of a Roman senator (and perhaps the presence to go with it).

Right, this is a fashion plate; a ball dress in the eighteen-forties, and I'm just showing this actually to make another point; sort of change of direction maybe, because I'm now going to almost undo everything that I've just said, and say that this was the fashion, high fashion of the eighteen forties.