HASPEL PRESS, NEWS & CELEBRITIES
Since 1909, seersucker season has been year-round at Haspel. Check out some of the recent news and highlights in our press room. Also, visit our press archive for much more about Haspel.
RECENT HASPEL PRESS & NEWS
We Love You, New Orleans - Exhibition | LA STATE MUSEUM | 2020
It's getting hot out there! The Haspel Brothers company, founded in New Orleans in 1909, designed this seersucker suit to help keep their customers cool in the 1950s. The company's founder, Joseph Haspel, originated the idea of making men's suits out of lightweight wash-and-wear cotton seersucker material, which ultimately led to seersucker becoming the quintessential southern man's warm-weather suit. A 1950s Haspel suit is one of the artifacts included in the exhibition "We Love You, New Orleans" in the Cabildo.
Men's seersucker suit, Haspel Brothers, Inc., ca. 1950. Gift of the Crawford Family, 1966.060.145a–b.
Seersucker rules the Senate. This year, not so much | RollCall | June 2020
Every year in June, on a warm and sticky Thursday, senators arrive at work looking like they’ve come straight from the Kentucky Derby. Gone are the standard dark suits of the winter months. Instead, they wear seersucker.
Walking the halls of the Capitol, they project a sense of gentility and ease. Why yes, they seem to say, this fabric is 100 percent cotton. Why yes, it is extremely cool. Why yes, these tiny stripes, blue and white and vanishingly thin, kind of make your head spin. Now let’s all squeeze together for a bipartisan photo op.
Haspel Teams Up With Nola Couture On Accessory Capsule | MR | JUNE 2020
Two native New Orleans brands have joined forces on the release of a capsule accessory collection paying tribute to all things Louisiana.
American tailored clothing brand Haspel has teamed up with accessories company NOLA Couture on a line of colorful silk ties, bow ties, and pocket squares featuring some of Louisiana’s favorite things like sugarcane, pelicans, catfish, the “Cajun Holy Trinity”, magnolias, iris, and strawberry prints. Pocket squares retail for $35, bow ties for $55, and neckties for $65.
Velvet Reigns | MYNEWORLEANS.COM | JANUARY 2020
Award season began on Jan. 5 with the 77th Golden Globe Awards. Each award season we love the bridal inspiration that can be sparked by red carpet looks. However, when scanning the celebrity attendees this year, we noticed a trend that surprised us – velvet … menswear.
Celebrate National Seersucker Day.
This year, June 13 marks the official date when U.S. Senate leaders set aside political differences for a more perfect sartorial union. Though popularized beginning in 1909 by New Orleans merchant Joseph Haspel, the seersucker suit has also long been closely associated with another Southern city: Washington, D.C.
CELEBRITY STRIPES
Haspel has been dressing Holywood for over 100 Years. From Gregory Peck's iconic outifit as Atticus Finch in To Kill A Mockingbird to Heisman Trophy Winning Quarterback Joe Burrow.
