Authenticity

I'm having such a difficult time! Someone from a local museum has asked me to sew them a reproduction dress to wear for tours but they don't really care about authenticity - and it's driving me crazy! I get so passionate about these things that it's hard to write them response emails when they say things about not caring about authenticity! Really hard. I've spent so long researching the clothing of this era and it has always been so important to me to represent things as they were during the time. It just seems so wrong to knowingly deceive people by wearing something that wouldn't have actually been worn at the time. Even if it's just a little inaccurate...why not just do it right? It's not even like she's asking a lot...but to me it's huge. Ugh. I've tried so hard to just focus on what I'm doing and not what everyone else is doing when I go to reenactments. After all, who really cares if other people want to be farbs, right? Sometimes you just have to pretend as if everyone else cares as much as you do...then you won't have to rant and rave about it all the time. But at some point I'm going to need to decide if I care so much about authenticity that I'd turn away needed money to stand up for what I believe. Would that be 'noble' or would it just be so dorky?
:)