Seersucker rules the Senate. This year, not so much - Roll Call

When temperatures in the District climb into the 90s, fans come out of the woodwork. “I loved wearing seersucker compared to a normal suit,” said Devin Mogler, a former aide to Sen. Joni Ernst. “It was much more bearable.”

But “you can do it wrong very easily,” warned another Senate aide. “You gotta wear a bow tie.”

Former Sen. Trent Lott would agree with that assessment. He’s the one who started the tradition at the Capitol back in the early 1990s, citing nostalgia for the days before air conditioning. “Wear a neck tie or a bow tie,” and match it with your socks, he once told Roll Call when asked for seersucker fashion advice. That said, he also urged people to “channel your inner Dianne Feinstein.” The Democratic senator led the way for female lawmakers to participate in the male-heavy ritual, and was a key player, together with Cassidy, in reviving it in 2014 after a hiatus.

Cassidy got Seersucker Thursdays rolling again in 2014, back when he was in the House. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

The history of seersucker itself is much longer than that. There’s the imperialist story, with the fabric woven through Britain’s colonization of India. There’s the class story, with seersucker morphing from a breathable uniform worn by laborers into a symbol of wealth recognizable not only in the American South, but in preppy northern enclaves like the Hamptons.

And then there’s the Washington story. The political mythology of seersucker stretches back to that one time in the early 1900s when Joseph G. Cannon, the House speaker whose name now sits on the Cannon Building, wore a seersucker jacket to meet President Teddy Roosevelt, supposedly declaring it was too “damn hot.”

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