![]() Seersucker Thursday may seem puerile to outsiders, but it’s a beloved Senate custom to those who participate. While it sounds like what fortune tellers call a client behind his back, seersucker comes from the “Persian phrase ‘shir-o-shakar,’ meaning ‘milk and sugar,’ alluding to the alternating textures of the fabric” per the resolution’s preamble.ĭespite being such a seersucker evangelist, Cassidy still owns only one suit made of it. “We work in a Southern city here, but we dress like we were from Minnesota.” “It’s kind of a marking of the time,” said Cassidy. They posed for photos just outside the Senate chamber. More than a dozen of Cassidy’s colleagues, plus a surfeit of Senate staffers, joined him and his longtime partner in fashion crime, California Democrat Dianne Feinstein, in the sartorial celebration this year. “It has the weight of pajamas, so of course it’s comfortable.” Seersucker moves as well as it breathes, Cassidy said, and he could “totally” go jogging in it. outside the Senate chamber, but a Finance Committee hearing on corporate consolidation in the health care sector ran late - Cassidy emerged at 12:40 - so the senator literally fielded questions on the run. ”Ĭassidy spoke to CQ Roll Call while rushing to the annual seersucker photo op. “People who are ordinarily attuned to what’s going on didn’t realize it. ![]() We’re just trying to heighten the awareness of it,” he said, pointing to a reporter’s lack of a breathable, striped natural fiber jacket. When asked why he decided to codify the tradition this year, Cassidy shrugged. On Wednesday, the Senate adopted a resolution from Cassidy designating Thursday as National Seersucker Day, June as National Seersucker Month and every subsequent Thursday through August as Seersucker Thursday. And this year, the inherently relaxed look of blue-and-white rumpled cotton is going formal.
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