[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 95 (Tuesday, June 4, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3957-S3958]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




    SENATE RESOLUTION 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''

  Mr. CASSIDY (for himself and Mr. Warnock) submitted the following 
resolution; which was considered and agreed to:

                              S. Res. 719

       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, with the help of the late

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     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
       Resolved, That the Senate--
       (1) designates June 13, 2024, as ``National Seersucker 
     Day'';
       (2) designates every Thursday after National Seersucker Day 
     through the last Thursday in August 2024 as ``Seersucker 
     Thursday'';
       (3) designates June 2024 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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