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my new favourite pants and cookbook
after a week off, have Two Good Things!
Welcome to clipboard, a weekly newsletter about fashion, hospo and Tāmaki Makaurau, by Reilly Hodson. This week: my new favourite pants and the cookbook I would bring to a desert island. If you enjoy clipboard, you can chip in a few dollars by clicking the button below and help me buy silly clothes to write about.
I wear white (well, cream) pants now
For my whole life, my pants rotation has consisted solely of shades of blue, black, grey and green. Dark bottoms, white or black t shirt, dark jumpers and outerwear was the basic maths that my weekend wardrobe was based on.
In the past year or so, though, I’ve started to consider branching out from that. The breaking point was a combination of my British style icon Brittany Bathgate going nuclear on white pants for Northern Hemisphere spring and the release of Throwing Fits’ natural fatigues, in collaboration with 3sixteen. The latter pants cost NZ$350 after shipping, so I bought a similar pair for half price, instead.
You can find Stan Ray pants at plenty of stores nowadays, but no one seems to be able to hold on to stock. I regularly peruse the stock selection at Good As Gold, Commoners, Indigo and Provisions and more to see when they get restocks, and this week I got lucky at Good As Gold and bought a pair of these natural drill painter paints.
They’re a step out of my comfort zone, colour wise, but they’ve quickly become my new favourites. They fit exactly how I like pants to fit: high on the waist, wide in the leg, with a slight taper, and they’re made in the US in a factory that’s been making work pants for longer than any reader of this newsletter has been alive, I’d wager. I wear them with a single cuff at the moment, but I’m tossing up getting an inch or two taken off the inseam for a hard break at the top of the shoe.
Some people have strong beliefs about things like white pants heading into winter, but I think that autumn and the winter are the best time to have fun with the way you dress, and while white pants are dangerous in winter, or when you’re eating pasta, wearing them makes me feel a bit sunnier.
These pants are my favourite weekend look, paired with darker knitwear or jumpers and a pair of sneakers or Docs. They don’t go with everything (wearing these with a white tee is an advanced move that I’m not quite at yet), but not everything has to go with everything else in your wardrobe! Have some fun. You can also get these pants in a blue and white stripe (I own and love these), blue denim, black, brown, and a true white. Buy them in every colour, if you like them! If my job was a “wear painter pants to work” type of workplace, I’d probably do it myself.
If you’re into the vibe but want to score a deal, Waves Vintage always has a rack of vintage white Dickies painters that are very similar.
clips
Taylor Swift’s first re recorded album, Fearless, just dropped and I’ve been rinsing it on repeat. I particularly enjoy the new track ‘Mr Perfectly Fine’ that is classic Taylor, including the perfect post-bridge key change for when you’re driving with the windows down.
The Spinoff has the story on what happened to Onzo bikes.
I really love this new flannel overshirt from Maggie Marilyn, if anyone has $995 rattling around that they don’t know what to do with, here’s your answer.
Viva did a bumper issue on men and masculinity this Wednesday, including this great interview with clipboard friend and subscriber Thom Sussex of Thom Morison fame, and this awesome collection of photography about modern masculinity.
Another great new collection from Penny Sage just dropped: a great stop for good pants and snuggly knits for the new season.
If you still haven’t had a Baby G smash burger, they’re popping up at Coffee Supreme’s Grey Lynn headquarters today (Sunday) from 12pm.
My favourite restaurant Ockhee also happens to make the best merch tees in the game, and they just dropped a new set. Paulee very graciously held me one of their unique hand dyed ones, which are probably gone by the time you’re reading this, but you can still buy the plain black and white here.
a very excellent cookbook
When you work full time, live in a small apartment without a dishwasher and you want to eat in a way that has a minimal negative impact on the world, it’s difficult to cook dinner every night in a satisfying and delicious way. Before my partner and I both worked full time, we were extraordinarily good at meal planning and cooking delicious food every night that cut back on meat and dairy consumption. Now that we’re working all day, five days a week, it’s a lot more difficult.
Enter: One pot, pan, planet, by Anna Jones, a cook who I had never heard of but who is apparently quite well known in the UK. It’s a straightforward premise: delicious vegetarian recipes that only use one pot or pan, and are quick to cook, and it’s just exactly what we needed.
I picked it up the other day at Unity Books after work, and we’re already doing the vast majority of our cooking from it. I have a habit of buying cookbooks, looking through and saying “ooh that’s delicious” and then never cooking anything from them, but about 80% of the meals we’ve had at home since picking it up have come from this book.
Jones is very strong on helping readers reduce their food’s impact on the environment, and she’s also very respectful in the way that she discusses recipes which borrow from other cultures (she’s white), acknowledging her sources and noting the changes she’s made.
There are also those great sections that all the good new cookbooks have about how to shop at the grocery store, limit food waste, and a great section about easy ways to cook those veggies you always buy just because they’re there (I always buy broccoli, for example), which is very helpful as someone still learning the ropes of being an adult.
Importantly, everything we’ve made so far is easy to make on a weeknight and tastes bloody good, which is what matters most. And at $55, it pays for itself in savings at the grocery store and not buying takeaways when you can’t be bothered cooking (although there’s no shame in that, once in a while).