SPOTTED: A bipartisan group of senators sporting smiles in their seersuckers — and potentially proving that stripes could actually be what brings together lawmakers of different stripes.
Sens. Bill Cassidy (R-La.) and Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.), co-chairs of National Seersucker Day, joined some of their colleagues as they posed for pics by the Ohio Clock on Thursday at the Capitol to mark the day dedicated to the stripe-heavy duds.
Then-Sen. Trent Lott (R-Miss.) started the annual ode to the summertime outfit in 1996.
Warnock has praised the bipartisan “iconic Senate tradition” in the past, saying, “Seersucker is more than just a fabric, it is a material deeply woven into Southern culture.”
Cassidy said last month that the day “honors the New Orleans invention that’s made America fashionable — and the summer heat bearable.”
“For one day a year, the Capitol looks a little more like the French Quarter,” Cassidy said, saying in a statement, “We might not always agree on policy, but we can all agree: Wool in June is a mistake.”
