Time Warp Wives (2 of 2)

We all find ways to escape the stresses of twenty-first century life. While most people find solace in foreign holidays, exercise or a large glass of wine, some people have found a very different survival strategy: they are retreating into the past.

Sally Hewitt's First Cut film takes a step back in time to meet four women who are desperate to be old-fashioned housewives.

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• Time
• Warp
• Wives
• documentary
• lifestyle
• retro
• 50's
• housewife

[HermanBossche]

WOW - breathtaking, so beautiful to see, beautiful people and stunning cinematic portrait.

[stlgtrace]

Good for these women, and their husbands and boyfriends!!! They are true to themselves and want to have personal dignity and respect! They care very much how they look and act! I wish more women had that much self-respect. They are ladies. Of course you don't need to be retro to be a lady but obviously in the past there was more respect for a lady. By the way my grandmother was an auto mechanic in WWII and a damned good one but she was a lady all the way!

[LateNightCable]

@TeamKilday The reason given for not having children was not that they wouldn't be able to handle really having those responsibilities in the 40's/50's. It had more to do with the difficulty of raising those children in the modern era - which is alien, and the unwanted influences the current era would impose on the family.

[TeamKilday]

Women in the 40's and 50's DID have to raise children as well. By choosing not to having children these women are saying they wouldn't be able to REALLY handle living like a 1940s/50s family. They are choosing to not do something because it's 'too hard', when in fact, having children was VERY 1950s

[nederland4045]

@VintageBeauty1313 Many people don't want kids, nothing wrong with that.

[nederland4045]

@growingthehome We call it Neo Traditionalism; combining the best of the past with the best of the present.

And actually women back then would talk down about other people, not all of them wanted children either.

[nederland4045]

@zhazhamoran I liked the idea of that movie.

I'd love to live in a 1930s themed commune, except of course without the obvious monsters, telling kids nonsense, etc.

[nederland4045]

@klassy40sgal I get pretty close.

Except my computer my house is 1930s, my lifestyle is 1930s, my manners are 1930s, I'm not there yet, but getting close.

[nederland4045]

@stlgtrace Yes we often forgot that MANY women in the 1940s and before had jobs on the side, they were full time housewives but also had jobs outside the house, simply to make ends meet.

Generally back then people looked better (compared to today anyway) and people were brought up in a more polite and civilised manner, or at least society seemed that way.

[nederland4045]

@mverobeach1 And unlike the Amish their lives are not all about religion.

[mverobeach1]

they're like amish people, but rather than living in the 1790's. they live in the 1930's, 40's, and 50's.

[teacupchi]

that sammy girl is so cute!!! wish i can meet her and tell her that her looks is fab!!!