Natalie Long: a studious style on Draper Road, Blacksburg
Name: Natalie Long
What influences your personal style? ” J. Crew and Urban Outfitters catalogs.”
What’s this outfit’s signature piece? ” I really like my pants today.”
Where to get it: H&M
Occupation: Interior designer
Age: 22
Location: Draper Road, Blacksburg
Date: Monday, September 3, 2012
Time: 5:23 p.m.
What caught my eye: I loved the colors and the clean studious look of Natalie’s outfit. Also look at the flat black ribbon her shoes were made from, they were woven almost like a basket. 
September 10, 2012 - 8:16 AM
Really like her look.Reminds me of my freshman year in high school.We were finally allowed to wear pants in school and this was a popular look.
We didn’t have the adorable shoes,we wore penny loafers-yes with a penny in the flap-and our glasses were Cat Woman style.She has beautiful hair!
She’s cute and I like all the pieces, I just don’t see a cohesive look here. A cool-weather ensemble but with summery shoes … and wrinkly pants.
Love the glasses!
This girl is so cute! Love the sweater.
@tass how do you keep your dress pants from wrinkling after working all day?
It’s not about whether someone’s clothes get wrinkled, it’s about whether a style blogger is doing a good job by choosing to highlight wrinkled clothes as good style.
Could it be that there were no well-dressed people in Blacksburg that day? It happens all the time…
How is this only a fall look? You don’t need bright colors from May to August to be styled for summer. Short sleeved denim top, tapered slacks and a cardigan hardly says fall only. I wear cardigans into the late afternoon quite often in summer. We live in the Mountains, temperatures drop when the sun goes down, you wouldn’t swap out your sandals for closed toe shoes and socks just cause it dropped below 80 degrees after sunset would you?
@tass and @Karen, I’m not really sure what your clothes looks like after a day of wearing them, so unless you love 100% polyester, wrinkles are going to happen. If I made wrinkled clothing a no go for me I’d miss out on great looks like this. Natalie’s look was very refined for her age, refreshing from the normal sorority, hipster, mall brand uniforms I’m constantly exposed too. Nothing here is obviously brand name, If I didn’t list where she got her pants you won’t be the wiser. On that note, if Natalie felt her pants were her key piece in her look that day, who am I to disagree because her pants were a bit wrinkled. If you didn’t notice the pleasant color mix of neutrals and pastels, or that this look could have been cut right out of the pages of a Anthropologie or J Crew catalogs, then you’re simply looking to hard to find something to critique. I always let people state their opinions freely, but your comments are about wrinkles, not anything that would ever create a dynamic conversion about style and fashion. If you want to look at wrinkle free street style-like images, there are plenty of magazines that can satisfy your needs. In the real world of complete spontaneous unexpected street style photography, Stains, fading, dirt and wrinkling happen.
Lastly, anything that is NOT blue jeans, t-shirts, and anything maroon and orange is light years from being “not-well dressed” in Blacksburg.
This young woman is very cute, and should get credit for, as you said, not being in jeans and a VT shirt. She also should win a few point for not wearing flip-flops or Crocs. I don’t even mind the wrinkles- yes, I do get them myself. Nor do I find fault with buying pants at H&M. I’m not sure how you read any of that into my comments. I just thought she wasn’t as well put together as the other few posts I viewed, so was making the observation that (in my opinion), you might be standing on Draper Road for quite a while waiting for style-blog-post-worthy fashion to walk by. No offense meant to the blogger or the “model”.