Louisiana Senator Celebrates Nationwide Seersucker Day

Louisiana Sen. Invoice Cassidy is aware of help his constituents.

For the tenth yr, the politician and doctor — together with 12 different members of the Congress and greater than 130 staffers — donned their seersucker jackets and pants in Washington, D.C., to rejoice Nationwide Seersucker Day.

Joseph Haspel Sr., of New Orleans, is credited with creating the primary seersucker go well with for the U.S. market in 1909. His great-granddaughter, Laurie Haspel Aronson, runs the Haspel firm immediately.

“At the moment, we rejoice Nationwide Seersucker Day. Seersucker is a New Orleans invention and trendy heat climate staple,” Cassidy stated. “It’s an honor to have carried on this custom for the previous 10 years alongside my colleague Sen. Dianne Feinstein. I sit up for many extra.”

Former U.S. Sen. Trent Lott introduced Seersucker Thursday to Congress in 1996, however it will definitely fizzled out. Cassidy revived it in 2014 when he was within the Home of Representatives after which introduced it to the Senate when he assumed that position in 2015.

On Wednesday, Cassidy and Feinstein handed a decision within the Senate to ascertain Thursday, June 8, as Nationwide Seersucker Day.

In a video posted to Twitter on Thursday, Cassidy donned a seersucker jacket and invited folks to go to his workplace in Washington to see the seersucker wallpaper he makes use of. “Nationwide Seersucker Day,” he stated within the video, “a day wherein we carry a little bit little bit of the tradition of Louisiana to Washington, D.C. I hope you get pleasure from seersucker on a heat Louisiana day, which makes it really feel like it’s a cool Louisiana day.”