Figure shaping

Fiona and Tanya retro-fitness shoot

Just enjoyed a fabulous shoot with talented dancer Fiona and her retro-enthusiast friend Tanya. The idea was to dress the pair of them in 1950′s and 1960′s swimsuits, girdles and corsets and do one of our retro workout sessions, where we concentrate on achieving that perfect retro hourglass shape. For most of the shoot Fiona, [...]

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Sarah and Romany retro-fitness shoot

Regular readers will know that we have been doing a series of post pregnancy shoots with Sarah since August 2011, to document and  encourage her in her getting back into shape process. As you can see, she has done amazingly well and she looks absolutely stunning. 2011-08-29 2011-09-12 2011-09-26 Having already done three shoots, we [...]

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Fiona retro shoot

Just had an absolutely fantastic retro shoot with Fiona. She is a very hard working and talented model and a thoroughly nice person to work with. In fact, she was so keen that she had done her hair and make-up, perfectly, before she arrived at the shoot so that we didn’t waste an time. The [...]

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Sarah’s third post-pregnancy shoot

This is the third of a series of photo shoots, intended to document Sarah’s progress as she gets back into shape after given birth to two healthy babies. Readers may recall that Sarah ended her second shoot enjoying a deportment session with Chiara. It went really rather well, so we decided to get them together [...]

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Sarah second post-pregnancy shoot

This is the second of a series of photo shoots, intended to document Sarah’s progress as she gets back into shape after given birth to two healthy babies. First part of the shoot was with Sarah on her own, modelling her own tightly-laced corset, teamed up with  a pair of snugly fitting black lycra control [...]

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Sarah’s first post-pregnancy shoot

Just got back in touch with Sarah after four years. Back in 2007 Sarah did a couple of splendid shoots with us. But then things went quiet. Turns out that she has given birth to two happy, healthy babies and is embarking upon a fitness programme to get back into shape. This seems like a [...]

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Chiara 10 years of shooting

I first worked with Chiara way back 2001-06-09. In that time we have done dozens of shoots and taken many thousands of pictures. In that time we have become good fiends and done many projects together. Whilst it has always been brilliant fun, it has also been a lot of work, and poor Chiara has [...]

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Chiara girdle review

In the tradition of our old Zona project, we asked Chiara to do another modern girdle review shoot. Only this time we decided not merely to photograph the garments, but also to sum up Chiara’s opinions in pictures So here we have two low-cost but nicely-made new black panty girdles bought via eBay. Girdle 1 [...]

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Cara Mascara and Chiara

Cara Mascara’s first shoot with waist.it, choreographed by Chiara. Cara is a very pretty young lady. With a little help from Chiara, she got the hang of retro very quickly indeed.

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Chiara and Heather Pink Shoot

This shoot was entirely Heather’s own idea. In this “pink-themed” shoot, Heather teams up with regular waist.it model Chiara. Chiara’s role was to  help Heather pose with that classic retro pin-up body shape, so we could capture some authentic-looking retro dressing-room pictures.

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Claire and Heather

Regular model Heather brought her friend Claire along for a shoot, one fine spring day. This was the result.

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Chiara and Laura retro fitness shoot

Regular model Chiara teaches Laura the art of creating that authentic retro body shape. Using Chiara’s tried-and tested methods of good posture and good corsetry, both young ladies go on to create some fantastic imagery. This shoot works particularly well because the models take it in turn to help each other achieve that perfect hourglass [...]

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Heather

Musician and model Heather appears in a solo for her personal retro fitness and corsetry shoot, in the hope of creating some images she can use on her new CD cover.

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Chiara and Heather retro fitness

Today, regular waist.it model Chiara teaches Heather how to do the retro thing.

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Chiara and Jade

Models Chiara and Jade dressed in very figure-shaping bras and girdles, as they model for a particularly productive retro fitness shoot. The concept was to shape each other’s figures using a mixture of exercise, posture and shapewear.  We start, however, with a few snaps of Jade solo, wearing a delightfully form-fitting Cheongsam over her shapewear.

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Shelley

Shelley’s first solo retro corsetry and swimwear shoot. Here she starts with some of her own clothes. She moves on to some fitness work, whilst modelling one-piece swimwear. Then she does some fabulous poses in simple bras and panty girdles – as well as a traditional Vollers corset. There also a few snaps of her [...]

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Chiara and Sarah retro fitness

Sarah’s second shoot for waist.it, where regular model Chiara takes her though the art of retro fitness and corsetry modelling.  

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Chiara and MJay

Beautifully toned fitness model MJay joins waist.it regular model Chiara for some retro fitness and figure-shaping fun.  

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Chiara retro corsetry

Chiara models for another moodily-lit retro corsetry and swimwear shoot.  

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Heather and Jade retro pin-up

Dancer, former gymnast and regular waist.it model Jade gently guides new model Heather through her first retro pin-up shoot.  

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Chiara and Synthetic Cookie retro fitness

Chiara and synthetic cookie in a bra-and-girdle fitness shoot, followed by some serious corseting fun.  

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Jade and Sara retro fitness

Dancer, former gymnast and regular waist.it model Jade joins physical education undergraduate Sara for a stunning retro fitness shoot.  

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Chiara and Synthetic Cookie

Chiara and Synthetic Cookie in their first retro girdles and corsets shoot – much of it shot outdoors.  

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Chiara and Sara retro fitness and corsetry

Today we did one of our best retro-fitness shoots so far. Here we see regular model Chiara, teaching deportment and retro posing techniques to pretty physical education undergraduate student, Sara. And because Sara also knows a thing or two about exercising to improve the figure, she was able to do some magic things with Chiara’s [...]

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Becky and Chiara retro fitness

Becky and Chiara in retro fitness shoot.  

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Carlie and Chiara lit by LED

Carlie and Chiara in experimental lighting shoot. Basically after a few warm-up shots and figure control exercises, they both donned skin-tone bras and matching body-shaping control briefs while we wrapped them in hundreds of blue LED’s  

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Chiara and Nikki

Chiara and Nikki in another retro fitness shoot. This time the tables are turned, as Nikki works on Chiara’s figure. The results of which are simply stunning!  

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Becky, Carlie and Chiara

Fabulous three-girl shoot with best-friends Becky and Carlie, guided by waist.it regular model Chiara. Here they model a variety of retro corsetry and swimwear, with a little fitness modelling thrown in for effect.  

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Chiara and Dee

Dee’s retro-fitness shoot choreographed by waist.it regular Chiara and model/actress, Dee, 2005-09-30. Features  a nice variety of retro bras, girdles, 60′s style bikinis and 50′s/80′s one-piece swimsuits. Dee is a fabulous find, with her slim figure, long legs and flat tummy. She took to retro amazingly well, as the following pictures clearly demonstrate. And she got her revenge on [...]

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Becky and Carlie

Best friends Becky and Carlie experiment with girdles, corsets and old-style swimwear.  

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Chiara and Nikki

Regular waist.it model Chiara and fitness model Nikki in their third retro-fitness shoot together.  

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Chiara and Nikki

Chiara and Nikki join forces again for their second retro fitness shoot.

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Chiara t-shirt and girdle fitness shoot

Classic “T-shirt and girdle” fitness shoot with Chiara. Today she uses the nag-board that she normally hangs off-camera when she works with other models to remind them about their posture. It reads simply “Shoulders back, tummy in and smile!“. She also models a nice blue Chinese bra and panty girdle set, teamed up with a [...]

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Chiara tight belt

Part of this shoot borrows heavily from pictures of 1950′s pin-up Betty Brosmer. Here we study what happens when Chiara pulls her tummy right in and then ties a belt tightly at her waist to keep it in! We did manage to grab a few more relaxed snaps of Chiara modelling some rather nice dancewear [...]

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Chiara and Vicki

Chiara teaches Vicki the retro way.  Features Vicki in a tight velvet corset and in a lovely cheongsam.  

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Chiara and Moonlit Jane

Our own waist.it regular model Chiara and Chinese model Moonlit Jane enjoying their third retro-fitness shoot together .  

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Chiara and Moonlit Jane

Chiara continues teaching Moonlit Jane how to pose the retro way.  

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Carlie and Chiara model Hong Kong outfits

A combined fitness, fashion and dance shoot, where Carlie and Chiara model a new batch of retro-style outfits brought back from Hong Kong. Chiara also takes the opportunity to do a little figure sculpting on Carlie too. And Carlie takes the straighteners to Chiara’s hair to create an interesting new look for her.  

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Carlie and Chiara Zona shoot #3

Pictures taken for our 2003 Zona “Modern Girls in Girdles” project. Shoot #3. To see the Zona project in its entirety, please visit:- http://waist.it/projects/zona

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Annie and Chiara corsets and garden shoot

This is the third shoot in our “taming the hippie chick” series. Here we see Chiara and her best friend Annie in the garden, modelling t-shirts, blouses, bras and some too-tight zip-front Chinese panty girdles, worn as beautifully figure-hugging hot pants. This was followed by a corset shoot in the studio. The result was a [...]

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Annie and Chiara

Despite her ordeal last time, Chiara’s best friend Annie returns for as second “taming the hippie chick” shoot. Annie admits to being something of a hippie chick, used to wearing flowing clothes and not having to worry about old fashioned things  such as posture and deportment.  So she was very brave to come back for [...]

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Annie and Chiara first shoot

This is the first of a planned series of shoots where Chiara teaches best friend Annie how to do the retro thing. Now Annie is  a lovely gentle person and very attractive too. But she is also admits to being something of a hippie chick, used to wearing flowing clothes and not having to worry [...]

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Chiara and Debbie

We finally managed to get Chiara and another waist.it regular Debbie  a joint retro fitness shoot. Both girls are very familiar with posing for retro-style pictures, and both are used to working with other models, and sculpting them to achieve the desired retro shape. So it was rather good fun to film such experienced retro [...]

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Alison and Chiara

Chiara teaches Alison how to pose the retro way. Alison is an experienced model, but this is only her second retro style shoot. Meanwhile Chiara has become very experienced at creating that curvy hourglass silhouette. So, using a mixture of corsetry and exercise, Chiara was able to gently but firmly help Alison mould her body [...]

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Carrie and Chiara halloween

Yet another shoot in our Halloween series. This time, Chiara is joined again by Carrie. And like the last shoot she appeared  in, we mixed the Halloween theme with some of Chiara’s tummy-trimming trickery. Actually, Carrie seemed delighted try some more of Chiara’s figure control exercises. And Chiara was glad  of a partner to work [...]

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Carrie and Chiara halloween

Continuing our Halloween theme, today Carrie and Chiara did a fabulous, but unconventional retro fitness and Halloween shoot. Carrie hadn’t shot with waist.it for a while. And she had two babies since her last shoot. We thought it would be fun if Chiara spent some of the shoot helping Carrie get back in shape and [...]

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Chiara halloween 2

We decided to pursue the Halloween theme a little further today. Chiara tried a zip-front panty-girdle from Hong Kong, Waist nipper girdle by Maidenform, and a variety of one piece body shapers and leotards. She said she would try anything as long as it was black, made her bum look good, kept her tummy flat, [...]

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Chiara tiny waist

Another shoot focussing on Chiara’s waist and tummy. He we use a mixture of exercise and corsetry to get images of her waist at its tiniest. Be sure to check out the floor shots near the end of the shoot, as she rounds off the shoot with some more of her amazing tummy tucking exercises. [...]

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Chiara tiny waist fitness shoot

Following on from the last couple of shoots where we discovered just what sculptable belly Chiara had, we decided to use this shoot to squeeze and emphasise Chiara’s tiny waist as much as we could. So we used a mixture of tricks,  including girdles, corset top, baby oil (to make her shiny and show her [...]

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Chiara fitness

This studio shoot with Chiara started out as a retro fitness shoot, following on from yesterday’s belly-dance shoot. But it soon became a general rummage through the props-box, trying on new outfits. However we did manage to snap fabulous some shots of her with an amazingly flat, pulled-in little belly, as she demonstrated her tummy-tucking  [...]

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