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118TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION S. RES. 240 

Designating June 8, 2023, as ‘‘National Seersucker Day’’, designating every 

Thursday after National Seersucker Day through the last Thursday 

in August 2023 as ‘‘Seersucker Thursday’’, and designating June 2023 

as ‘‘Seersucker Appreciation Month’’. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JUNE 7, 2023 

Mr. CASSIDY (for himself and Mrs. FEINSTEIN) submitted the following 

resolution; which was considered and agreed to 

RESOLUTION 

Designating June 8, 2023, as ‘‘National Seersucker Day’’, 

designating every Thursday after National Seersucker 

Day through the last Thursday in August 2023 as ‘‘Seersucker Thursday’’, and designating June 2023 as ‘‘Seersucker Appreciation Month’’. 

Whereas seersucker was introduced to the United States in 

the South in the middle of the 19th century; 

Whereas seersucker suits were popularized in the United 

States in the early 1900s by New Orleans businessman 

Joseph Haspel at his Broad Street facility in New Orleans, Louisiana; 


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Whereas, as a lightweight, hard-wearing fabric, seersucker is 

mostly worn and enjoyed by the people of the United 

States during hot summer months; 

Whereas former Senator Trent Lott of Mississippi brought 

Seersucker Thursday to Congress in 1996, and after the 

day went unobserved in 2012 and 2013, then-Representative Bill Cassidy revived the tradition in the House of 

Representatives in 2014 and, with the help of Senator 

Dianne Feinstein, has continued the tradition ever since; 

Whereas the name ‘‘seersucker’’ originates from the Persian 

phrase ‘‘shir-o-shakar’’, meaning ‘‘milk and sugar’’, alluding to the alternating textures of the fabric; 

Whereas the seersucker textile is made of cotton, linen, or 

silk (or combinations thereof), woven on a loom with 

threads at different tensions, creating alternating stripes 

of smooth and puckered textures that do not lay flat on 

one’s skin, which is what makes the fabric so breathable; 

and 

Whereas one of the two alternating stripes in seersucker is 

frequently in a color, typically blue, but sometimes gray, 

green, tan, red, pink, or another color, which, in combination with the white stripes, creates the iconic pattern 

so well known today: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That the Senate— 

2 (1) designates June 8, 2023, as National Seer3 sucker Day; 

4 (2) designates every Thursday after National 

5 Seersucker Day through the last Thursday in Au6 gust 2023 as ‘‘Seersucker Thursday’’; 


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1 (3) designates June 2023 as ‘‘Seersucker Ap2 preciation Month’’; 

3 (4) recognizes the contributions of the hard4 working people of the United States through the 

5 wearing of seersucker, the unique warm weather 

6 clothing known as the working person’s uniform; 

7 (5) encourages Senators to support the objec8 tive of National Seersucker Day and Seersucker 

9 Thursday; 

10 (6) encourages local governments in the United 

11 States to build partnerships with local organizations 

12 and other members of the clothing industries and 

13 enthusiasts to promote the wearing of seersucker; 

14 and 

15 (7) invites the people of the United States to 

16 don their warm weather finest on National Seer17 sucker Day and every Seersucker Thursday. 

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