White, White Cotton+Seersucker

Dad got so skinny after his operation. He always wore white boxer shorts and Fruit of the Loom tee shirts under his clothes and smelled sweet and clean. There is something so magnificent about cotton on ones skin. I was thinking of putting the t-shirt and boxer shorts outfit in a frame or suspending it in lucite so that I could look at the wrinkly cotton that reminded me of my dad. I am also thinking about the connection between the south and its history with cotton.

white boxer shorts+fruit of the loom tee shirts
cotton
searsucker
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Seersucker is an all cotton fabric. In the New World cotton was one of the first staple crops considered acceptable for export by Virginia settlers. "King Cotton" established sociological patterns of both rural South and industrial North that existed for generations and eventually led to the terrible, bloody Civil War. Cotton was the principal crop fueling the expansion of the South's plantation economy. The cotton fabric we have come to identify with our summer suiting was first woven in India, the name seersucker being a Hindi corruption of a Persian phrase, "shir shakkar," which translates as "milk and sugar" and this is the way Seersucker got its name.