Doppelganger contest - NPC's wearing dated gear :(

Sooo,

I wanted to enter the contest, I picked out my npc, and stood beside them going through my crafting logs.

Sadly, my npc of choice is wearing a piece of dated gear, a hempen/cotton/canvas whatever, tabard. The current tabard recipes have an additional metal decoration on the front, so I can't look just like my npc :(

Think they'd overlook that, or would I just lose the contest?

Dunno, but mines about the same. The type of shirt the person has on is a bit different, and most of the other equips have unique textures/colors (player version cant be dyed in some cases). Getting as close as I can however, and hoping for the best.