Thanks, Slim cat!
LJP, thank you. I got a great deal on the skirt last year on sale -- it's a 3 season piece here (not high summer but all the rest of the year) and works as well in spring as in winter. And on my legs, I am wearing nude hose! I haven't worn them in maybe years!? Confession: I'm at home today. When I go out for my walk, I will trade these in for cozy tights. It's cold here today.
And Angie, yes! Thank you for copying the photo. And you are dead right about my "something light" pattern rule. It is just for tops though I almost broke that, too, for the velvet shirt from Anthro...except I think the lilac reads light in the midst of all the dark, so it's borderline.
Anyway -- I will wear all dark on the bottom in patterns, for sure. My other patterned bottoms, below -- the charcoal pants have a very light grey or off white line in the check -- but it's nearly invisible -- the Dries pants have a light line, a bit more visible, but not super obvious, the CM pants are lighter overall and have a sort of greenish check with white in the grey, the other plaid skirt has a not terribly noticeable yellow line, and then the Liberty print has light as well as dark.
The plaid of this skirt is a bit brighter in person. I mean, it's still dark, but there's a brighter blue mixed in than you can really see here, and the green also stands out more as green IRL.