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Jim Saksa

Sartorially savvy senators, staff select seersucker as smart summer suit

It was a sea of pale puckered cotton in the Senate on Thursday. 

That’s right, it’s seersucker season again on Capitol Hill.

Donning the Southern staple once a week during the sweltering months has been a Senate tradition since 1996, when Mississippi Republican Trent Lott decided to make it a thing. After a short lapse, Bill Cassidy took over the clothing coordinator duties in 2014 while still in the House, making this his 10th year in the role.  

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