You need the navy! Period.

What about tapering the gray ones? It looks like you have a few wide legs. Just an idea, not a necessity.

And yes, Suz is right that you can eject a different type of item!

I'd say if you gave away those two tops, you've easily qualified these trousers as your two "in" pieces! Fret no more.

Yup -- if two tops are out then these are completely justified. This is how Angie operates it. Not by category type but pure number. Maybe for two or three years you are in love with pants but not so much dresses. Fine -- out go some dresses. And then the love for dresses returns? Fine - say goodbye to a few worn out pants.

Great idea to swap the trousers for something not a trouser. I haven't tried this yet with my one in one out shopping. I kept trying to replace a like item with a like item and found it very challenging to do so sometimes.

You need to keep these trousers. As you start wearing your fall things, a couple of spaces are bound to open up in the closet when something looks more worn than remembered or no longer your style.

They both look great, especially with that shirt. I don't think they need to be tapered, and usually I am all about that. But these have a lovely line as-is.

I was so caught up in the Zara drama that I missed this thread, Sveta. Of course you can use a couple of extra pairs of pants in your wardrobe; we live in Canada and wear pants nine months of the year.

Both of those pairs look great on you and I also like Suz's way of handling the one-in, one-out issue. Cut the tags (including the size ones if they bug you), and wear those pairs to death this fall and winter.

And, by the way, I recently showed a couple of your WIW pictures to my sister who wears the same sizes as you do and who has a very similar body shape. She was also feeling a bit disheartened because of some of her recent shopping experiences. Her first reaction was to dismiss you as just another model. Once I convinced her you were just a extraordinarily striking, well-dressed, "normal" woman, she wanted to see more and more. I think I called you "the fabulous Sveta" in your other thread. You are exactly that--and a total inspiration for all of us who need that XL in Zara.

Rae, I do have 2 pairs of wide legs but these ones are straight. That was thinking as well: taper plaid and keep navy straight especially if I get the balzer as well and make it a suit because straight legs are classic and will have more longivity.
Angie suggested to try them first as they are and I think it is a good idea. This is what I did with my black straiht legs which are bigger and baggier and I just did not feel fab in them: too much volume but not enough structure. My mom is tapering the black ones now.
These ones fit smaller, not baggy but just relaxed. I will try them as they are and we will see!
Janet and Suz - I alrady removed those tops from my spreadsheet and added the trousers. No rule is broken, I am a good girl so far!
Lisa, here you go - new rule bending example for you!
Gaylene, that was a very sweet comment. Sometimes I doubt if I should continue with WIW on regular basis, if it is too much vanity or something but if they can help anybody then I will continur to post them. I wish good luck to your sister in her style journey!

Oh Sveta, I have nothing new to add but had to chime in to say that both pairs of trousers are wonderful and definitely deserve a place in your wardrobe (yay for flexible one-in-one-out thinking, I approve!-)
AND to second what Gaylene wrote: please don't stop posting your WIWs!!! You are my Tall Lass inspiration on YLF, and I can't even begin to tell you how much each and everyone of your outfit posts has inspired me to come up with new outfit combinations and ideas on how to wear certain items myself.

Sveta, *I* will be the one crying if you stop your WIWs!