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* Just about any event of the [[Society for Creative Anachronism]], where you can see examples of everything from sixteenth-century German armor to Moors to Vikings to Romans to Samurai all competing in the same tournament, or a Viking chatting with an Elizabethan lady over a display of Catholic prayer beads. Not a result of [[Did Not Do the Research]] so much as the basic structure of the organization; anything before 1600 AD is fair game for re-enactment. ''Individuals'' will generally be faithful to a period in their dress, though this also varies.
** Then again, they do give you fair warning. It wouldn't be a [[Society for Creative Anachronism]] if they weren't creatively anachronistic, now would it?
*** And they merrily [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshade]] it themselves, as in ''[http://www.goldenstag.net/players/Scripts_PDF/OurKindII.pdf Our Kind II: Mistress Laurel Seamchecker Explains It All At You]'', in which a character explains that "Historically, clothing is divided into three periods: bearskins, funny clothes, and modern."
*** The unofficial motto of the SCA is: "The Middle Ages... as they should have been."
** Medieval Re-enactors in the UK used to annually attend the Battle of Tewkesbury each year, but until recently, it was well-known for allowing pretty much anyone with vaguely medieval kit (garb to SCA types) onto the field. At one of the last events before it changed to a more authenticity
** Renaissance festivals in general are often actually more of a pastiche of Middle Ages, Renaissance, and even Fantasy (including fairies, etc.).
*** Not to mention Sci-Fi, what with the occasional incursions of groups of people in ''[[Star Trek]]'' uniforms pretending to be an Away Team.
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