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by StacyFan on February 21st, 2005

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What is seersucker?

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  • by wickedwillie on February 22nd, 2005

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    Seersucker is a light thin fabric, generally cotton or rayon, with a crinkled or puckered surface and a usually striped pattern.

    Originally, in the eighteenth century, seersucker was striped Indian cotton, the stripes being the identifying feature. You can tell that from the original name, the Persian shir o shakar, literally “milk and sugar”, in reference to what we would now call its candy stripes.

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