Amid the Me Too movement and radical feminism, a new opposing trend has emerged across Britain - the 'tradwife' trend.

Harking back to 1950s Britain, and already established in the US, the trend sees women reverting to the traditional roles of housewives, practiced in the fifties and sixties.

The belief behind the movement is that wives should not work, and rather spend their days cooking, cleaning, wearing modest and feminine dress, and practice traditional etiquette, being submissive to their husbands and 'always put them first'.

Taking it a step further, some believe in the 'Home Front' life, cooking recipes from World War II rationing recipes and even replacing toilets with outside loos.

Many appear to associate the trend, which often involves vintage fashion, with nostalgic memories of a warm kitchen during their chidlhood, seeking comfort in its old-fashioned connotations.

Among the women is British housewife Alena Kate Pettit, who has started up a 'femininity finishing school' vlog called 'The Darling Academy', and who admits that growing up in the Spice Girls 'girl power' era made her feel uncomfortable.

The 'tradwife' trend harks back to 1950s Britain, and already established in the US, the trend sees women reverting to the traditional roles of housewives, practiced in the fifties and sixties. Among the women is British housewife Alena Kate Pettit, seen, who has started up a 'feminity finishing school' vlog called ' The Darling Academy ', and who admits that growing up in the Spice Girls 'girl power' era made her feel uncomfortable

Speaking to the BBC, she explained of her blog: 'I talk about etiquette, feminine lifestyle, homemaking, and being a traditional housewife.

'I wouldn't expect my husband to come home after a long day at work and cook for me. My job is essentially being a housewife.'

Alena gets a monthly allowance for the food shop, along with a buffer for her to 'spend something on myself' so she's not always 'asking him for money'.

Alena argued: 'It's almost harnessing the best of what made Britain great during a time where you could leave your front door open.

'Times are changing and we no longer know the identity of our country'.

Admitting that she didn't enjoy growing up in the nineties era where the emphasis was on breaking glass ceilings, Alena says she was 'born to be a wife and mother'

Alena enjoyed shows from the 1950s and 1960s, and remembered how her single mother worked full-time, with the house becoming a 'huge burden', which became the turning point for her when she realised she 'didn't want the same life'

Admitting that she didn't enjoy growing up in the nineties era where the emphasis was on breaking glass ceilings, Alena says she was 'born to be a wife and mother'.

Alena enjoyed shows from the 1950s and 1960s, and remembered how her single mother worked full-time, with the house becoming a 'huge burden', which became the turning point for her when she realised she 'didn't want the same life'.

Revealing that her husband also believed in the same traditional values and offered to 'look after her', she admitted meeting him was the moment she felt complete.

'It's almost like the fairytale came true', she said.

Alena says she was a 'career girl' in her twenties and followed messages from hit show Sex and The City, which she interpreted as telling women working was 'liberating and they should follow their sexual desires'.

Not identifying with this persona, she then turned to shows like the Real Housewives, but found the wives were 'too rich to do their own cleaning and everyone was cheating on each other'.

She then went online and discovered an underground movement of other women who felt the same, explaining they craved the sense of 'belonging, home quaintness and tradition'.

Alena, who strongly believes your husband should 'always come first and should know this', says some feminists believe her movement is throwing their work for equality back in their faces.

Revealing her take on feminism, she explained: 'My view on feminism is that it's about choices. To say you can go into the working world and compete with men and you're not allowed to stay at home -to me is taking a choice away'.

Distancing herself from the movement's right-wing links, she argued: 'Being a tradwife is investing in your family and being selfless. So I would say the opposite of that is someone who is selfish and just takes'.

Twitter users shared their views as they saw the topic trending on Twitter, observing that feminism had 'gone full circle'

The movement is controversial among many feminists, as it claims women should 'submit' to their husbands.

It comes at a surprising time, given the #MeToo movement and call for equal salaries for both sexes.

Along with blogs and vlogs dedicated to the movement, which is also taking Brazil, Germany and Japan, by storm, an array of books from the fifties and sixties 'teaching' women how to be the perfect housewives are becoming popular again.

One of the movement's pin-up girls is Helen Andelin, the American author of the 1963 'Fascinating Womanhood' book, which teaches women that subordination is the 'key to a happy marriage' and has regained popularity.

And, a century after the first wave of feminism ended, and sixty years after the women's liberation movement, Helen Andelin's daughter Dixie Andelin Forsyth has launched a worldwide 'femininity class' with 100,000 followers.

Speaking to Stylist, she claimed: 'The movement's rising because women have had enough of feminism in the UK and elsewhere.

'We say to feminists: thanks for the trousers, but we see life a different way'.