Becky Fifield
Samuel Adams’s Mother Was a Fifield
RL Fifield vacuuming samplers with a dental vacuum in the old Textile Conservation Lab, MFA Boston, 2001. Back in the early aughts, I was...
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Becky Fifield
- Nov 5, 2015
- 2 min
Thomas Bewick, Newcastle Wood Engraver (1753-1828)
Oil painting on canvas, Thomas Bewick (1753-1828). Cherryburn, Northumberland, National Trust. NT 530359. In digging through the British...
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Becky Fifield
- Jun 10, 2014
- 2 min
Transportation Tuesday – B&O Centenary Pageant, 1927
Ladies in nymph-like attire twirling and leaping through fields – sounds like the turn of the century pageantry movement to me. The...
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Becky Fifield
- Nov 20, 2013
- 2 min
A Philadelphia Servant, 1787
The Accident in Lombard Street. Charles Wilson Peale. Winterthur Museum. 1962.88. A pie lays broken in the street, a distraught servant...
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Becky Fifield
- Aug 29, 2013
- 2 min
Catering to Clients in an 18th Century Philadelphia Shop
I spent July at a Research Fellowship at Winterthur Museum, Library, and Garden. This mainly meant identifying manuscripts and object...
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Becky Fifield
- Jul 25, 2013
- 1 min
A Squeal of Delight at the Indianapolis Museum of Art: Miniature Dresses
RL Fifield. I attended the American Institute for Conservation’s Annual Meeting in Indianapolis at the end of May. The opening reception...
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Becky Fifield
- May 31, 2013
- 1 min
Fun with Fraktur – Women’s Dress in a Drawing from Winterthur Museum
An embroidered apron at LACMA, similar in concept to those depicted in the Winterthur fraktur below. M.2007.211.131 I’m not a...
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Becky Fifield
- Apr 4, 2013
- 3 min
Connecting the Dots: Convict Servants in Maryland
Eddie Izzard puns on the Church of England: “Cake or Death?” For people found guilty of committing small crimes in England,...
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Becky Fifield
- Dec 21, 2012
- 2 min
Shifting Garment Styles, 1750-1790: What Research and Sketching Have in Common
I roll over this analogy in my mind as I work with my study of 1,000 runaway indentured and enslaved women and their 6,000 garments,...
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Becky Fifield
- Sep 30, 2012
- 2 min
Eighteenth Century for the Weekend
RL Fifield, 2012. Last weekend, The Brigade of the American Revolution hosted an Authenticity Event at Don Carpentier’s Eastfield...
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Becky Fifield
- Sep 29, 2012
- 2 min
Halloween Comes to Downton Abbey
I predicted in this post from April that people would be hot to trot for Downton Abbey influenced costumes this Halloween. True to form,...
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Becky Fifield
- Sep 11, 2012
- 1 min
Transportation Tuesday: A Moment on the Baltimore and Ohio
I was inspired by this salted paper print from the 1850s of people posing for a photograph on a Baltimore and Ohio engine. I thought...
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Becky Fifield
- Sep 10, 2012
- 1 min
Museum Monday: Online Patterns of Eighteenth Century Garments from LACMA’s Collection
Speaking as a museum professional and a living history practitioner, what a great project. Theatrical designer Thomas John Bernard and...
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Becky Fifield
- Sep 7, 2012
- 2 min
Nanny – A Servant Wager Cup
Online databases are incredible tools. While my museum career has mostly focused on textiles, dress, and ethnographic materials, I never...
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Becky Fifield
- Aug 2, 2012
- 2 min
Hold the Tulle: I’m Anti-Princess
Manhattan is a special place, no doubt. I live on the Upper East Side in Yorkville, a formerly German and Czech community. I jokingly...
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Becky Fifield
- Jul 20, 2012
- 2 min
Variety Among the 18th Century Lesser Sorts
Der Wöchentliche Pennsylvanische Staatsbote 9/17/1773. As part of my research on 18thcentury working class clothing, I have been studying...
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Becky Fifield
- Jun 23, 2012
- 1 min
Names of the Forgotten – Runaway Clothing Database Project
Maryland Gazette, August 9, 1787. Library of Congress. RL Fifield photo. The Runaway Clothing Database project uses newspaper runaway...
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Becky Fifield
- Jun 14, 2012
- 1 min
What is Fashion? An Agreeable Tyrant
Continental Journal. October 23, 1783. Photo: Newsbank, American Antiquarian Society. #costume #dress #England #fashion
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Becky Fifield
- Jun 8, 2012
- 2 min
Lolita Dresses – WTF?
Cosplay-Japan Expo 2012. Photo by Lomita. Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported. I was minding my own business on...
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Becky Fifield
- May 27, 2012
- 2 min
Following Eleanor Ferrell: A Runaway Indentured Servant
New: see the full article online here. If it doesn’t come up, go to the home page and search again. Abraham Emmit labeled her “an ill...
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