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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. RES. 719 

Designating June 13, 2024, as ‘‘National Seersucker Day’’, designating every 

Thursday after National Seersucker Day through the last Thursday 

in August 2024 as ‘‘Seersucker Thursday’’, and designating June 2024 

as ‘‘Seersucker Appreciation Month’’. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JUNE 4, 2024 

Mr. CASSIDY (for himself and Mr. WARNOCK) submitted the following 

resolution; which was considered and agreed to 

RESOLUTION 

Designating June 13, 2024, as ‘‘National Seersucker Day’’, 

designating every Thursday after National Seersucker 

Day through the last Thursday in August 2024 as ‘‘Seersucker Thursday’’, and designating June 2024 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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•SRES 719 ATS 

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, with the help of the late Senator 

Dianne Feinstein, revived the tradition in 2014; 

Whereas the Senate will remember the late Senator Dianne 

Feinstein’s historic service as she shall forever remain a 

part of this tradition, which Senator Raphael Warnock 

will continue in her stead; 

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; 

Whereas cotton is an important crop that producers in the 

United States, including 3,500 family farms in Georgia, 

strive to cultivate in the highest quality; and 

Whereas one of the 2 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— 


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•SRES 719 ATS 

1 (1) designates June 13, 2024, as ‘‘National 

2 Seersucker Day’’; 

3 (2) designates every Thursday after National 

4 Seersucker Day through the last Thursday in Au5 gust 2024 as ‘‘Seersucker Thursday’’; 

6 (3) designates June 2024 as ‘‘Seersucker Ap7 preciation Month’’; 

8 (4) recognizes the contributions of the hard9 working people of the United States through the 

10 wearing of seersucker, the unique warm weather 

11 clothing known as the working person’s uniform; 

12 (5) encourages Senators to support the objec13 tive of National Seersucker Day and Seersucker 

14 Thursday; 

15 (6) encourages local governments in the United 

16 States to build partnerships with local organizations 

17 and other members of the clothing industries and 

18 enthusiasts to promote the wearing of seersucker; 

19 and 

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

21 don their warm weather finest on National Seer22 sucker Day and every Seersucker Thursday. 

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