A living history museum has given its staff rare permission to wear their own clothes this week because of the heat.<\/p>\n
Normally the workers at Blists Hill Victorian Town in Shropshire wear clothing from the 19th century, to play the roles of the people of the time.<\/p>\n
But with temperatures above 30C (86F) this week, the National Trust said it was better for them to be comfortable.<\/p>\n
Shirley Chisholm, who normally dresses as a Victorian chemist shop assistant, said it felt “really odd” to be out of costume but added: “We’re really grateful for that.”<\/p>\n
She explained it would have been “very shameful for a woman to be dressed like this in Victorian times”.<\/p>\n
Normally, she would wear several layers of clothing, including a large dress, and that was typical of the time.<\/p>\n
“It would have caused a bit of a social stir if a respectable woman had gone out in the street without even her hat on,” she said.<\/p>\n
She also said she felt the visitors understood the decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A living history museum has given its staff rare permission to wear their own clothes this week because…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":661372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-661371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=661371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/661371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/661372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=661371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=661371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=661371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}