Walton Goggins and Aimee Lou Wood on The White Lotus, Episode 3.01: “Same Spirits, New Forms”
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Walton Goggins as Rick Hatchett, grouchy “victim of [his] own decisions”
Koh Samui, Thailand, Spring 2024
Series: The White Lotus
Episode: “Same Spirits, New Forms” (Episode 3.01)
Air Date: February 16, 2025
Director: Mike White
Creator: Mike White
Costume Designer: Alex Bovaird
WARNING! Spoilers ahead!
Background
Now that we’re more than a week into summer, I’m revisiting one of my new favorite sources of warm-weather style inspiration: Walton Goggins as the sardonic Rick Hatchett in the latest season of The White Lotus.
We meet Rick alongside his much-younger girlfriend Chelsea (Aimee Lou Wood) as they arrive by boat to the Koh Samui resort, where he quickly earns the ire of the Ratliff family by defiantly refusing to put out his cigarette. In tow: a suitcase full of loud shirts, plenty of emotional baggage, and a simmering grudge tied to resort owner Sritala Hollinger (Lek Patravadi) and her husband Jim (Scott Glenn).
Though Rick’s true motives grow more dangerously apparent as the season unfolds, our early impressions are limited to Chelsea’s casual comments: he doesn’t work much, he’s not quite balding enough to qualify as an “LBH” (loser back home) like her new friend’s all-too-familiar paramour, and her genuine desire that he take better care of himself. But as we quickly learn, Rick is often his own worst enemy.
What’d He Wear?
Rick’s day-to-day dress in Thailand typically consists of aloha shirts and army-style cargo pants, worn with the more world-weary insouciance of Hawkeye Pierce than the typical tropical-shirted American tourist. Returning from the previous two seasons of The White Lotus, costume designer Alex Bovaird establishes this character template from the start, as Rick arrives to the resort in a boldly printed shirt that would be the first of more than a half-dozen he sports during the week.
If the print didn’t already spell it out with its cultural stereotypes of sombreros and matadors in a red, green, and yellow palette on a cream ground, Rick’s rayon shirt helpfully includes the word “Mexico” scripted across it in red. The black-embroidered “GUESS” logo on a white tag in the upper right corner of the breast pocket identifies it as a vintage Marciano by GUESS piece. The elbow-length short sleeves and straight hem are consistent with conventional aloha shirts, though Rick’s shirt features a point collar rather than the more casual camp collar.
GUESS produced this same design in both men’s and women’s cuts during the ’80s and ’90s, but Rick’s six-button placket follows the right-over-left button configuration typically reserved for women’s clothing. Given that this is a man who blasts a heater on a shared boat, gendered fastenings probably aren’t top of mind.
In perfect Rick fashion, the whole thing is a layered contradiction: a Mexico-themed shirt made in Jamaica by an American brand, worn by a guy in Thailand who doesn’t give a damn.
Rick’s cargo pants are one of two pairs of slouchy trousers he cycles between during the week in Koh Samui. The olive-green cotton twill fabric recalls Army fatigues, as do the slanted side pockets with forward-facing flaps, flapped back pockets, and thigh-positioned cargo pockets—all borrowed straight from the U.S. military’s M51 field trousers. Though these recollect the styling of 70-year-old field trousers, the Instagram account @WhiteLotusCloset identified that these were most likely made by the L.A.-based streetwear brand MNML.
The bottoms are plain-hemmed, cut high enough that they don’t slouch on the ground with Rick’s usual black leather sandals. These simple flat sandals have two leather straps over each foot—one wide strap across the instep and a narrower one over the metatarsals, with an additional black leather loop for the big toe.
Unlike his girlfriend and their fellow guests who seem to change sunglasses as much as their underwear, Rick always wears the same dark polished tortoise acetate Ray-Ban RB2140 Original Wayfarer shades that he wore for his arrival. His gold box-chain necklace that closes through a lobster-claw clasp has two pendants: a medium-sized black bead and a larger gold plate featuring tiger’s eye (or a similar stone). His right ring finger has a large darkened silver ring with an overlapping band that swells out to a prong-like setting for a large black square stone.
Rick is a Rolex wearer like Walton Goggins in real life, arriving at the resort in a stainless steel (or possibly white-gold) Rolex Datejust that he wears for most of the season, though occasionally swapping it out for a considerably less expensive Q Timex® GMT Quartz with a black-and-green bezel like the “Sprite” Rolex GMT Master II. Worn on a brown edge-stitched leather strap, Rick’s Datejust has a fluted bezel encircling the round white dial with its 3:00 date window.
What to Imbibe
After their “health mentor” Mook (Lalisa Manobal) leaves them in their suite, Rick pulls a bottle of beer from their private fridge. The label reads “Baylin”, a fictional brand that also appears in contemporary shows like Poker Face.
In the fifth episode, Rick indicates a preference for a real-life brand when he orders a glass of Dewar’s White Label blended Scotch whisky, neat, bracing for an astonishing monologue from his old pal Frank (Sam Rockwell).
How to Get the Look
Walton Goggins on The White Lotus, Episode 3.01: “Same Spirits, New Forms”
To paraphrase Walton Goggins’ co-star Parker Posey in another of her works, who does Rick’s day-to-day style of tropical shirts and army pants remind me of? Me!
- Cream “Mexico”-motif rayon short-sleeved shirt with point collar, front placket, and breast pocket
- Olive-green cotton flat-front cargo pants with slanted side pockets (with single-snap flaps), double forward-pleated patch cargo pockets (with double-snap flaps), set-in back pockets (with single-snap flaps), and plain-hemmed bottoms
- Black leather double-strap toe-wrap flat sandals
- Ray-Ban RB2140 Original Wayfarer dark tortoise acetate-framed sunglasses with dark-green lenses
- Gold box-chain necklace with tiger’s eye pendant and black bead
- Silver overlap ring with prong-set black square stone
- Rolex Datejust automatic watch with stainless steel case, fluted bezel, white dial (with 3:00 date window), and brown edge-stitched leather strap
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