A resolution designating June 11, 2026, as "National Seersucker Day", designating every subsequent Thursday through the last Thursday in August 2026 as "Seersucker Thursday", and designating June 2026 as "Seersucker Appreciation Month".

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. Res. 757 Agreed to Senate (ATS)]

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119th CONGRESS
  2d Session
S. RES. 757

Designating June 11, 2026, as ``National Seersucker Day'', designating 
 every subsequent Thursday through the last Thursday in August 2026 as 
  ``Seersucker Thursday'', and designating June 2026 as ``Seersucker 
                         Appreciation Month''.

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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                              June 8, 2026

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

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                               RESOLUTION

 
Designating June 11, 2026, as ``National Seersucker Day'', designating 
 every subsequent Thursday through the last Thursday in August 2026 as 
  ``Seersucker Thursday'', and designating June 2026 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, with the help of the late Senator 
        Dianne Feinstein, revived the tradition in 2014;
Whereas the Senate will remember the historic service of the late Senator Dianne 
        Feinstein, who 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 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 11, 2026, as ``National Seersucker 
        Day'';
            (2) designates every subsequent Thursday through the last 
        Thursday in August 2026 as ``Seersucker Thursday'';
            (3) designates June 2026 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 objectives 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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