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====Farbs====
[[File:Costumed gladiatrix Roman period.jpg|thumb|A reenactor dressed as a Roman citizen.]]
"Farbs" or "polyester soldiers",<ref>Hadden pp. 209, 219</ref> are reenactors who spend relatively little time and/or money achieving authenticity with regard to uniforms, accessories, or period behavior. Anachronistic clothing, fabrics, fasteners (such as [[velcro]]), [[Headgear|headwear]], footwear, vehicles, and consumables (such as modern cigarettes) are common.

The origin of the word "farb" (and the derivative adjective "farby") is unknown, though it appears to date to early [[American Civil War]] centennial reenactments in 1960 or 1961.<ref>Hadden p. 8. "Ross M. Kimmel states that it was used at the Manassas reenactment in 1961&nbsp;... George Gorman and his 2nd North Carolina picked up the term at the First Manassas Reenactment in 1961 and enjoyed using it constantly with condescension and sarcasm directed toward other units."</ref> Some think that the word derives from a truncated version of "Far be it from authentic".<ref>{{citation |url=http://wesclark.com/jw/hodge.html |title=They Don Period's Clothes, Eat Era's Grub and Sneer At Less-Exacting Brethern |work=[[The Wall Street Journal]] |date=1994-06-02 |access-date=2011-01-03 |last=Horwitz |first=Tony |quote=Some also refuse to fight beside those whose uniforms and performance art don't measure up: a group derided as "farbs," {{Sic|hide=y|short|-hand}} for "far-be-it-from-authentic."}}</ref> An alternative definition is "Far Be it for me to question/criticise",<ref name="Hadden 8">Hadden, p. 8</ref><ref>[http://wesclark.com/jw/forigin.html Wesclark.com]</ref> or "Fast And Researchless Buying".<ref>Hadden p. 8 ''Juanita Leisch calls it "Fast And Researchless Buying," and other sources insist it came from the Bicentennial and Revolutionary War groups and means "Fairly Authentic Royal British."''</ref> A humorous definition of "farb" is "F.A.R.B: Forget About Research, Baby". Some early reenactors assert the word derives from German ''Farbe'', color, because inauthentic reenactors were over-colorful compared with the dull blues, greys or browns of the real Civil War uniforms that were the principal concern of American reenactors at the time the word was coined.<ref name="Hadden 8"/><ref>[http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-far1.htm Worldwidewords.org]</ref> According to Burton K. Kummerow, a member of "The Black Hats, CSA" reenactment group in the early 1960s, he first heard it used as a form of fake German to describe a fellow reenactor. The term was picked up by George Gorman of the 2nd North Carolina at the Centennial Manassas Reenactment in 1961, and has been used by reenactors since.<ref>Hadden, pp.&nbsp;219–220</ref>