diff --git a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.3.0.rst b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.3.0.rst
index 21e6f0ea57451..d021b32b99590 100644
--- a/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.3.0.rst
+++ b/doc/source/whatsnew/v1.3.0.rst
@@ -728,7 +728,7 @@ Plotting
 
 - Bug in :func:`scatter_matrix` raising when 2d ``ax`` argument passed (:issue:`16253`)
 - Prevent warnings when matplotlib's ``constrained_layout`` is enabled (:issue:`25261`)
--
+- Bug in :meth:`MPLPlot._plot` ignoring ``style`` when using error bars (:issue:`7023`)
 
 Groupby/resample/rolling
 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
diff --git a/pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/core.py b/pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/core.py
index c9c12d8d5788a..7271adb722775 100644
--- a/pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/core.py
+++ b/pandas/plotting/_matplotlib/core.py
@@ -706,6 +706,8 @@ def _plot(cls, ax: Axes, x, y, style=None, is_errorbar: bool = False, **kwds):
                 kwds["xerr"] = np.array(kwds.get("xerr"))
             if "yerr" in kwds:
                 kwds["yerr"] = np.array(kwds.get("yerr"))
+            if style is not None:
+                kwds["fmt"] = style
             return ax.errorbar(x, y, **kwds)
         else:
             # prevent style kwarg from going to errorbar, where it is unsupported