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Updated: July 29, 2025
Grandma read the look in a minute; and when Fanny said, with a satisfied smile, "How do we look?" she answered, drawing Polly toward her so kindly. "Very like the fashion-plates you got the patterns of your dresses from. But this little costume suits me best." "Do you really think I look nice?" and Polly's face brightened, for she valued the old lady's opinion very much.
Grey, how can you? Most of these are caricatures. Grey. Nothing of the sort. All veritable costumes, I assure you. Those from 1750 down, fashion-plates; the others, portraits. Mrs. Grey. True, Laura. I've looked at them many a time, and thought how fearfully and wonderfully dresses have been made.
Oaths have their brief periods of ascendency, and philology can boast its fashion-plates. The tyrant Fashion, who wields for whip the fear of solitude, is shepherd to the flock of common talkers, as they run hither and thither pursuing, not self-expression, the prize of letters, but unanimity and self-obliteration, the marks of good breeding.
While all the other illustrations of the human ingenuity in making the human race appear fantastic or ridiculous amuse us or offend our taste, except the tailor fashion-plates of the week that is now, these few exceptions, classic or modern, give us permanent delight, and are recognized as following the eternal law of beauty and utility.
'And let me introduce you to Miss Beecher and Miss Elsie Beecher. Miss O'Dwyer took stock of the two girls. 'They make their own clothes, she thought, 'and apparently only see last year's fashion-plates. The eldest isn't bad-looking. How is it all West of Ireland girls have such glorious complexions? Her figure wouldn't be bad if her mother bought her a decent pair of stays.
Presently the sound of steps as fleet as Mark's but lighter, waked her up, and forgetting orders, she rustled to the door with an expression which fashion-plates have not yet attained. "Good morning, little bride." "Good morning, bonny bridegroom." Then they looked at one another, and both smiled.
So that the moral of this matter is the same as that of the other; that these things should raise in us, not merely the question of whether we like them, but of whether there is anything very infallible or imperishable about what we like. At least the essentials of these things endure; and if they seem to have remained fixed as effigies, at least they have not faded like fashion-plates.
Being a bride of not more than three months' standing she had nothing particular to do, and was yawning rather wearily over the fashion-plates of a ladies' paper. She seemed unaffectedly glad to see Dr. O'Grady, and at once offered to give him tea. The doctor refused the tea, and plunged into his business.
Matilda waited in the low, dingy room, where the tea-things were still littering the table, and as she paced restlessly about, trying to feel an interest in the long-discarded fashion-plates which adorned the walls, her anger began to cool, and give place to something very like nervousness. She wished she had not come. What, after all, was she to say to this girl when they met?
But there was an odd thirsty satisfaction in trying to tear the shadows. Fantastic. He had not been so fantastic for a long time. "And tomorrow there's 'Mode. And fashion-plates. And Greenwich Villagers," said the voice of Mrs. Severance. He made some reply impatiently, disliking the sound of his own voice hers fitted with the dream. When had he been this before?
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