Seersucker, Seersucker Everywhere
Lawmakers celebrated National Seersucker Day
It’s National Seersucker Day and boy, did we celebrate!
Despite Sen. Bernie Sanders’ meetings in the Capitol — who wasn’t wearing seersucker, by the way — and President Barack Obama endorsing Hillary Clinton (they weren’t, either), the Capitol still took a little time out of its day for the political stripe.
The tradition was started by former Mississippi Sen. Trent Lott. Thursday’s event was hosted by Sens. Bill Cassidy, R-La., and Dianne Feinstein, who kept the 20-year-old tradition alive.
The National Seersucker Day official photo was taken at 1:45 p.m. in the Russell Rotunda.
Before the photograph, Utah Republican Mike Lee was not wearing his seersucker. The senator changed into the suit, then was spotted less than two hours later back in his original grey suit on the Senate floor. Other senators kept the style on all day.
Senate staffers even participated; both women and men wore seersucker jackets. Some men wore just the pants while others opted to go all out — and even sported two colors.
What’s your excuse?
While Lee at least wore the suit for some time, we asked senators why they didn’t wear seersucker at all on Thursday.
“I’m just outta style,” Jeff Sessions said, surprisingly because seersucker is quite popular in his home state of Alabama.
“I do not own a seersucker,” Martin Heinrich said. “I do not think I can pull off the seersucker.”
But, the New Mexico Democrat gave one colleague a shout-out.
“I noticed that Roger Wicker had one on, but he’s a professional. If you’re from that part of the country you gotta have a few,” he said.
