Reminds me of the field trips to Plymouth Plantation with my fourth graders. If we went in the warmer months, someone usually asked if they were hot, and got pretty much the same answer folks cited here, but when you go down to the recreated Wampanoag camp, it was more of a **** shoot - sometimes you got boy scouts explaining things and other times you got members of the Wampanoag tribe. One of the later, a woman, remarked to me that she was just as glad to not have to wear the European style clothing, but if they wanted to be REALLY authentic, she would have been topless (side note - in the film at the Pequot Museum behind Foxwoods, the woman ARE topless. I understand that there are signs up now warning people with small children about that and the graphic violence, but at the time, we had a whole lot of 'splainin' to do once word got back to the parents!).
And then she said paid admissions would probably increase if they actually went with that level of authenticity!
No doubt.