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".

Bill: 118-sres-240
Sponsor: full_name: Sen. Cassidy, Bill [R-LA]
Introduced: 2023-06-07
Policy area: Arts, Culture, Religion
Subjects: Commemorative events and holidays

Manufacturing

Public-private cooperation

Senate
Latest action: action_date: 2023-06-07
text: Submitted in the Senate, considered, and agreed to without amendment and with a preamble by Voice Vote. (consideration: CR S2011; text: CR S2009-2010)

Summaries:
action_date: 2023-06-07
action_desc: Introduced in Senate
text: <p>This resolution designates June 8, 2023, as National Seersucker Day. The resolution also designates Seersucker Thursday and Seersucker Appreciation Month.</p> <p>Further, the resolution (1) recognizes the contributions of the hard-working people of the United States through the wearing of seersucker, the warm weather clothing known as the working person's uniform; and (2) encourages local governments to partner with local organizations and other members of the clothing industries and enthusiasts to promote the wearing of seersucker.</p>

action_date: 2023-06-07
action_desc: Passed Senate
text: <p>This resolution designates June 8, 2023, as National Seersucker Day. The resolution also designates Seersucker Thursday and Seersucker Appreciation Month.</p> <p>Further, the resolution (1) recognizes the contributions of the hard-working people of the United States through the wearing of seersucker, the warm weather clothing known as the working person's uniform; and (2) encourages local governments to partner with local organizations and other members of the clothing industries and enthusiasts to promote the wearing of seersucker.</p>

tv_txt: III 118th CONGRESS 1st Session S. RES. 240 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; 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

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.