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from The Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dressing Like a 1950s Housewife Is Not Just for \u2018Trad Wives\u2019<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

Bright-red lipstick, curled hair, high heels, full skirts: Feminists and \u2018trad wives\u2019 alike are embracing the midcentury look<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Rory Satran<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chloe Downing makes her own 1940s and \u201950s pieces.\u00a0JWCOOPER PHOTOGRAPHY<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Look closely among the droves of people in <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lululemon<\/a>\u00a0leggings and\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Crocs<\/a>\u00a0next time you\u2019re at the grocery store or the airport, and you might notice a curious sight: a woman dressed like a 1950s housewife. With her curled hair, full-skirted dress and high-heeled Mary-Jane shoes, she could be straight out of \u201cI Love Lucy\u201d or \u201cLeave It to Beaver.\u201d She might even be wearing an anachronistic frilly petticoat or apron. Wasn\u2019t this a style that was left firmly in the past?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apparently not. A new generation of women is discovering the midcentury look, albeit for wildly varying reasons. Perhaps most divisively, there\u2019s the \u201ctrad wife\u201d movement, an online community of traditional women whose retro fashion reflects their religious, conservative and even sometimes far-right values. Then there are women who profess \u201cvintage style, not vintage values,\u201d combining hourglass silhouettes with a progressive worldview. And then there are those women and designers who just happen to appreciate the bygone charm of a swirly skirt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lisa Pontius, a 35-year-old Charleston, S.C., homemaker, wears bright-red lipstick, wasp-waisted dresses and the occasional apron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cLooking at me, you\u2019re going to probably assume a lot of things, but you probably would be extremely wrong,\u201d she said. She\u2019s not a trad wife; she just likes the way the clothes and makeup look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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from The Wall Street Journal Dressing Like a 1950s Housewife Is Not Just for \u2018Trad Wives\u2019 Bright-red lipstick, curled hair, high heels, full skirts: Feminists and \u2018trad wives\u2019 alike are embracing the midcentury look By\u00a0Rory Satran Look closely among the droves of people in  Lululemon\u00a0leggings and\u00a0 Crocs\u00a0next time you\u2019re at the grocery store or the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}