By: jackie.sauter

The bar for seersucker has been raised, possibly out of reach, by Chief Judge Robert M. Bell of the Court of Appeals.

The always-dapper Bell appeared Thursday at the Maryland State Bar Association’s annual meeting in Ocean City wearing a pink seersucker jacket.

Bell, who hosted the annual mid-morning reception for newly-appointed judges, complemented the jacket with a trademark bowtie.

The chief judge told me he has five or six seersucker suits in addition to his jacket and that he will wear all of them regularly throughout the summer. “It’s like any other suit,” he said.