SUDDENLY SEERSUCKER; PUCKER UP. SUMMER'S TRADITIONAL COOLER HAS LOTS OF NEW WRINKLES.(clothing)

Daily News Record, March, 2005 by Gellers, Stan

Byline: Stan Gellers

If there's one summer perennial that bespeaks old money and traditional style, it's cool, crisp seersucker. Not the summer cooler of your father's generation but the new seersucker. The all-time classic has been improved, enriched, modernized. It's one part vintage and one part sexy Italian styling. Get ready for seersucker luxury. No shapeless, unlined sack suits once built for the dog days of summer. In their place are newer, cooler suits and jackets with deft tailoring and sleek silhouettes, trimmer and slimmer with a contemporary flair, in all-silk and linen/cotton fabrics in amazing bantamweights, or new laundered versions with an easy, relaxed look. The diehard blue-and-white crinkle cotton seersucker has been updated with fresh...

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