Common items made from seersucker include suits, shorts, shirts, curtains, dresses, and robes. Seersucker, bowties, and pastel colors predominate the atmosphere, particularly at the spring race. Seersucker is used by adding commercial threads in stripes along with the handspun threads. This dress was inspired by a WAC seersucker version the same color. The summer uniform was a two-piece green and white outfit made of washable seersucker material. The wearing of seersucker suits declined with the advent of air conditioning. Within a few years, Haspel started selling seersucker suits to businessmen in the South. By the 1950s, air conditioning reached the Capitol, ending the necessity of seersucker suits there. Seersucker is made by slack-tension weave. The surface as a whole has a "puckered" appearance; hence the common name seersucker plant. The seersucker summer uniforms had yet to be designed. As of June 27, 2012, Seersucker Thursday was announced to be discontinued. Today, seersucker is produced by a limited number of manufacturers.