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Millennial Aria Lewis is infatuated with the 1940s—and has been since she was 15 years old, growing up in a somewhat "vintage" family in North Carolina. Mrs. Lewis, now 22, has embraced the role of a “tradwife” (traditional wife), a neo-retro lifestyle trend adopted by some conservative newlywed women that has garnered a following on social media. She and her husband, Andrew Lewis, 28, embrace this choice, living together on a farm they purchased in Missouri. Growing Up an Old Soul .. As a child, I grew up on black and white movies,” she told The Epoch Times. “Dad really...

How TikTok and a Gen Z aesthetic are selling a lifestyle used to justify misogyny and white supremacy in AmericaMention the word “tradwife” and you might imagine the 1950s archetype: A “traditional wife” in a dress and an apron, smiling at her husband and three kids while presenting a gleaming beef roast at the dinner table, pleased as ever in her domestic domain. For a swath of right-wing American men, that image is part of a fantasy of how things “used to be,” in the good ol’ days before antifa and Black Lives Matter and feminist YouTubers ruined everything. The...

Growing veggies, making clothes from scratch and ditching the office job to stay at home. For many women in the tradwife subculture, life is as simple as that. The tradwife or "traditional" wife subculture is made up of heterosexual females from around the world, advocating traditional values of the past. They revere being stay-at-home parents and housewives, while their husbands work outside the home. Division of labour is clear. Devotion to family is paramount. But there's a complex spectrum within the subculture, and at its extreme end, a loose thread appears in an otherwise tightly knit image of wholesome family...