Some would say she’s looking to the past through rose-tinted glasses. Some call the trend a regressive step back for women’s rights, harking to when wives were “subservient” to their husbands.
Regardless, the Tradwife—traditional wife—trend is going viral on Instagram and has a stalwart following of women devoted to the old-school gender role of a traditional homemaker.
Each day, housewife Estee Williams, 25, gets up, slips on a vintage number, and does her hair and makeup in preparation for a day of cooking and cleaning. Believing in traditional values, she embraces the role.
Wives such as Williams, of Richmond, Virginia, have taken to the prospect of forfeiting college and career in favor of staying home, preferring the virtues of “serving” their husbands….