Joseph Haspel Sr. once said that "hot is hot, no matter what you do for a living".

During the British Colonial period prior to the invention of air-conditioning, seersucker had become popular in the warmer territories due in most part to it's light weight feel. The name seersucker derives from the Persian words sheer and shakar, literally meaning "milk and sugar'' -most likely coming from the fabrics smooth and bumpy hand.

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