[Congressional Bills 118th Congress] [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office] [S. Res. 719 Agreed to Senate (ATS)] <DOC> 118th CONGRESS 2d Session S. RES. 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''. _______________________________________________________________________ IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES June 4, 2024 Mr. Cassidy (for himself and Mr. Warnock) submitted the following resolution; which was considered and agreed to _______________________________________________________________________ RESOLUTION 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''. 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 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. <all>