Are These Wives Warped?

by Jessica

Meet the “Time Warp Wives” — three British gals who live like it’s 1930, 1940 and 1950.

I want those clothes! But not that life.

The Daily Mail interviewed Joanne, age 35, who owns some fabulous 1950s get-ups — but she also doesn’t leave the house without lipstick on and won’t put gas in the car because it’s “so unladylike.” She’s happy in her apron, stirring up homemade jam and baking cakes for her husband Kevin in their 1950s-style kitchen. Joanne attributes their uber-retro lifestyle to disgust at high-speed society:

“It may sound silly, but living like this really does make me happier - as though I’m existing in one of those old-fashioned TV shows where everything is always wonderful. My despair at the modern world is one of the reasons why we haven’t had children.”

Adds 34-year-old Debbie, whose home is “a shrine to the ’40s”: