A 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".



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[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 240 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]

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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''.


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                   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

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                               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;
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
    Resolved, That the Senate--
            (1) designates June 8, 2023, as National Seersucker Day;
            (2) designates every Thursday after National Seersucker Day 
        through the last Thursday in August 2023 as ``Seersucker 
        Thursday'';
            (3) designates June 2023 as ``Seersucker Appreciation 
        Month'';
            (4) recognizes the contributions of the hard-working people 
        of the United States through the wearing of seersucker, the 
        unique warm weather clothing known as the working person's 
        uniform;
            (5) encourages Senators to support the objective of 
        National Seersucker Day and Seersucker Thursday;
            (6) encourages local governments in the United States to 
        build partnerships with local organizations and other members 
        of the clothing industries and enthusiasts to promote the 
        wearing of seersucker; and
            (7) invites the people of the United States to don their 
        warm weather finest on National Seersucker Day and every 
        Seersucker Thursday.
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