MATTAPOISETT — For the February meeting of the Mattapoisett Woman’s Club, Abby Field will present “Tales from Great Grandmother’s Closet’’ Feb. 17 at Mattapoisett Congregational Church, 27 Church St.

The social hour for the meeting will start at 11 a.m. Current Covid protocols will be followed. 

Field, the program speaker,  has an interest in historical clothing that stems from a broader passion for history that began as a child. Her great-grandmother, a member of the Fairhaven Colonial Club, dressed in Revolutionary War-era costumes for events. 

Field seldom wears modern clothing; she feels the contemporary clothing industry and its reliance on low-wage foreign workers is unethical. She has a strong passion for historical textiles and the craftsmanship that went into making them. 

Beginning with the interest in clothing, Field’s passion for history blossomed. She started the History Club at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where she is a senior majoring in history. 

While she appreciates the lessons of history and the design of antique clothing, she does not reject modern society. She has an iPhone, uses a laptop, and is otherwise not very dissimilar from other millennials. 

She is the youngest board member of the Mattapoisett and Sippican historical societies, and she helps out at the Marion Antique Shop. Field completed an internship at the New Bedford Whaling Museum. 

For more information about the program and membership in the club, visit www.mattapoisettwomansclub.org/members/.