[Ads-l] "textiles" - clothes wearers

[ADSGarson O'Toole]

There was an earlier thread in June 2011 that began with a comment on
the phrase "textiled hikers":

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2011-June/110291.html
http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2011-June/110300.html

On Fri, Mar 6, 2020 at 9:58 AM ADSGarson O'Toole
<adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 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:
> >
> > Well, not esp. American ... yet.
> >
> > *Name:* Textiles.
> >
> > *Age:* They come in all ages.
> >
> > *Appearance:* Nice and warm.
> >
> > *Are we talking about fabrics?* No, just the people who wear them.
> >
> > *You mean absolutely everyone?* Not quite.
> >
> > *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
> >
> > 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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> >
> > Andy Bach,
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