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" Time for a quick vocabulary lesson. You already know that seersucker is the quintessential warm-weather fabric, with its puckered texture that sits away from the skin, promoting air circulation and making it ideal for those days when the temperature is way up there. And of course you&amp;#039;re well aware of its Derby Day appropriateness (hell, we&amp;#039;ve told you that one outright). But did you know that, contrary to popular belief, seersucker isn&amp;#039;t a pattern, but a particular type of fabric? No? Well it is. Those familiar vertical stripes may be the most popular iteration, but you&amp;#039;ll also see seersucker in gingham if you look for it. And whether checked or striped, it&amp;#039;s still the genuine article. That&amp;#039;s because it&amp;#039;s the weave of the cloth \u2014 achieved through a method called slack tension weaving \u2014 that defines what is (and isn&amp;#039;t) seersucker. It&amp;#039;s also what gave the fabric its name. The signature wrinkled look is achieved by creating sections that are alternately rough and smooth, something that the Hindustani-speaking population of India and Pakistan noticed back in the day. It prompted them call the fabric &amp;quot;kheer aur shakkar,&amp;quot; meaning &amp;quot;milk and sugar,&amp;quot; presumably in reference to the smoothness of milk and the roughness of sugar. Add a little English-speaking bastardization of the original moniker to the mix, and you&amp;#039;ve got &amp;quot;seersucker.&amp;quot; Now you know. Feel free to grace your sartorially minded friends with that little nugget of wisdom while you&amp;#039;re watching the ponies this weekend \u2014 if you haven&amp;#039;t had so many juleps that it slips your mind, that is. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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