"Chinese overtime" (and "textiled hikers")

[Garson O'Toole]

OED has the relevant sense of "textile" with a first citation in 1970:

textile A adj. 3. Naturism. Non-naturist; spec. applied to places,
etc., prohibited to nudists. Cf. B. 3.

1970    Newsweek 25 May 55/2   Its guests follow a daily routine
little different from that of the 'textile tourists'-or non-nudists-in
nearby hotels.

Wikitionary includes definitions for "textile" that attempt to reflect
the sense developed in the naturist community:

textile
Adjective
textile (comparative more textile, superlative most textile)
    (naturism) clothing compulsive.
        A textile beach
Antonyms
    (naturism): clothing optional, nude, naturist
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/textile

The following citation in 1969 might be an example of "textile beach"
in the sense outlined above:

Cite: 1969 July 27, Chicago Tribune, Germany's North Sea Coast by H.
P. Koenig, Start Page H5, (Quote Page 9), Chicago, Illinois.
(ProQuest)

Up at Kampen one even can locate a real live, working nudist colony.
On Textile beach a bathing costume of some sort is necessary; along
Abyssinia beach one can venture out clad in no more than a brave
smile.

In 1971 the New York Times used "textile free" and "textile tourists",
but this is after the Newsweek cite:

Cite: 1971 August 29, New York Times, Don't Forget to Pack Your
Birthday Suit by Judy Klemesrud, Start Page XX1, (Quotes Page 10), New
York. (ProQuest)

The relatively inexpensive Adriatic resorts are especially favored by
members of Germany's FKK (it stands for Freikorperkultur, or the
culture of freeing the body), which claims now to have a million
members constantly on the search for what they call "textile free"-or,
in other words, nudist-beaches. ...

She said that people who don't take their clothes off on  the beach
are soon surrounded by  a circle of nudists who stare silently at the
"textile tourists" until they either leave the beach-or shed their
garments.

Garson

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 10:37 PM, Garson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Laurence Horn wrote:
>> An article "Swaying in the Breeze" in the same issue of the N.
>> H. Advocate written by Dick Morrill, a practitioner of nude hiking
>> (increasingly trendy in the Cascades, it would appear) refers to
>> clothed individuals he encounters along the trail as "textiled
>> hikers", ...
>
> Thanks for sharing the interesting term "textiled hikers". The
> following citation appears to be dated circa 1975, and it suggests
> that naturists used the word "textile" in constructs referring to
> clothed individuals by the 1970s or earlier:
>
> Cite: GB Circa 1975, New Society, GB Page 181, New Society Ltd.
> (Google Books snippet; Unverified; Date probes show the volume
> contains a July 3, 1975 issue and a July 31, 1975 issue; the volume
> might also contain later issues, e.g. 1976-1978)
>
> And by the golf club house, two policemen pointed confidently east
> when I asked where the nudists would be. But I had walked a long way
> without seeing anything but "textile man" - a naturist term for the
> clothed.
>
> http://books.google.com/books?id=qxIHAQAAIAAJ&q=textile#search_anchor
>
> Garson
>
> On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at yale.edu> wrote:
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>> Subject:      "Chinese overtime" (and "textiled hikers")
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>> I hadn't previously encountered this entry in the catalog that
>> currently includes Chinese fire drills and Chinese landings and
>> Chinese home runs, as discussed in previous threads.  An article in
>> this week's New Haven Advocate, our weekly alternative paper, details
>> a suit filed by Save-a-Lot grocery by assistant manager Ed Roach on
>> the grounds that "under the store policy, Roach made less money [per
>> hour] the more hours he put in", i.e. a lower hourly rate for each
>> additional hour he worked.  Some web sites on the practice of Chinese
>> overtime:
>> http://www.overtime-flsa.com/what-is-chinese-overtime
>> ("an employee is paid a fixed salary each workweek for hours that
>> vary up and down from week to week, the employer may use an overtime
>> calculation method called 'fixed salary for fluctuating workweeks'")
>> http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20060707171900AAFIqtf
>> http://www.twc.state.tx.us/news/efte/h_regular_rate_salaried_nx.html
>>
>> LH
>>
>> P.S.  An article "Swaying in the Breeze" in the same issue of the N.
>> H. Advocate written by Dick Morrill, a practitioner of nude hiking
>> (increasingly trendy in the Cascades, it would appear) refers to
>> clothed individuals he encounters along the trail as "textiled
>> hikers", which strikes me as a nice, if not particularly useful,
>> retronym.  (I know, the first hikers--especially if you count our
>> non-human ancestors, Neanderthals, and such--were probably as nude as
>> Mr. Morrill, but still...)  Least-likely-to-succeed WOTY candidate,
>> you think?
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