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