[Ads-l] "textiles" - clothes wearers

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

Thanks for your post, Andy. LH posted on this topic back in September
2011. He remarked that the 'OED does have an entry for the relevant
sense of "textile"', and he shared the OEDs 1979 citation.

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2011-September/112033.html

On Thu, Mar 5, 2020 at 5:10 PM Andy Bach <afbach at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Well, not esp. American ... yet.
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> *Name:* Textiles.
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> *Age:* They come in all ages.
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> *Appearance:* Nice and warm.
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> *Are we talking about fabrics?* No, just the people who wear them.
>
> *You mean absolutely everyone?* Not quite.
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> *Which constituency could it possibly exclude?* Naturists. “Textiles” is a
> word they sometimes use to refer to the clothes-wearing majority.
> [slightly NSFW photo]
> https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/shortcuts/2020/mar/02/should-making-fun-of-naturists-be-classed-as-a-hate-crime?CMP=share_btn_link
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> Partridge dict. of Slang has it from 1995
> https://books.google.com/books?id=h0mcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA774&lpg=PA774&dq=Textiles%E2%80%9D+naturist+word++refer+to+the+clothes-wearing&source=bl&ots=_KzLW3sM_d&sig=ACfU3U307oMP6fEFOzvUhcoI9le-YQVJNQ&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwie8LCOrIToAhWalHIEHbpiAuMQ6AEwAXoECAwQAQ#v=onepage&q=Textiles%E2%80%9D%20naturist%20word%20%20refer%20to%20the%20clothes-wearing&f=false
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