What clothes were worn
This is a brief shoot where Chiara models a very stylish Half Moon retro one-piece swimsuit, kindly provided by eBay seller Bella Swimwear USA. Unfortunately, due to bad weather and other pressures, we haven’t been able to shoot outside. We’ll probably do that next spring. Note the “girdle” snaps at the end are unrelated to…
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…
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…
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 pantie girdles bought via eBay. Girdle 1…
Working with Chiara tends to inspire me with strange or surreal ideas. This shoot was based on a 1961 magazine advert for Maidenform girdles. Basically it involved taking two images of the model, one in a girdle and another shot of her wearing the same girdle under her dress. The two images were stitched together…
The manufacturer’s marketing department must have really racked their brains to come up with the name “Tummy-Ins” to describe a girdle. But the bizarre and slightly surreal packaging was just begging for a Chiara photo-shoot. So we removed the original model, and put Chiara on a scan of the packet instead. I’m not sure if…
The concept It is almost a year since Chiara and I worked together. Consequently she is a little out of practice. She also admits to not doing any of her usual tummy exercises for a while and that it is a bit of a struggle for her to keep it tucked in. Now, if this…
In this solo shoot, Laura models a variety of retro swimwear, evening wear and a tight white pantie-corselet.
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.
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. And of course, we let them reverse roles too…
Airline hostess, singer and model Heather is a very beautiful and talented young lady. She also has silky blonde hair and a fabulously curvy figure that looks particularly wonderful in good, old-fashioned corsetry and swimwear. We really love this sort of shoot here at waist.it
Chiara is not merely a very talented retro model. She is also my researcher, shoot organiser, model trainer and she organises the studio. Those familiar with this site will know that often when she is sorting out the place or tidying up the studio, she replaces her normal clothes with a t-shirt, bra and pantie…
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…
Fantastic second retro shoot with the beautiful Laura, featuring old style swimwear and corsetry, with a bit of fitness thrown-in! Laura picked up the retro concept very quickly indeed. The images she helped create are truly reminiscent of a bygone era.
Chiara models for waist.it and guest photographer, Ryan Cleminson. She starts the shoot in business clothes then changes into a retro knitted bikini. Finally she poses in t-shirt, PVC top, long-line strapless bra, and black control briefs worn as tummy-flattening, butt-shaping hot pants.
Fantastic first retro shoot with the beautiful Laura, featuring old style swimwear and corsetry, with a bit of fitness thrown-in! Laura seems to love retro, which is great because she certainly has the perfect figure for it. The images she helped create are truly reminiscent of a bygone era.
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.
Chiara puts on a bra wriggles into a girdle – worn as hotpants – and teams this up with a matching top, then tidies up the studio. Occasionally she pauses to do some tummy exercises. Meanwhile we follow her with a camera and snap her whenever she does anything particularly interesting or photogenic.
Today Chiara said she rather fancied some pictures using the pale blue background. So we shot her in her new green bikini doing her tummy exercises, and then in a Chinese matching shiny blue bra and control briefs for a few poses. She even did a few Betty Brosmer style tight belt shots too. For…
Today, regular waist.it model Chiara teaches Heather how to do the retro thing. Meanwhile we also got some splendid pictures of Heather doing musical things too. She is a talented singer and songwriter too. But Chiara’s main concern was to help Heather achieve that authentic retro shape. She was also keen to reverse roles and…
Chiara and Jade, modelling for a particularly productive “retro fitness in shapewear” shoot. The concept was to shape each other’s figures using a mixture of exercise, working on each other’s posture and deportment, whilst modelling some nice, firm shapewear.
Chiara attempts to emulate a pose she saw in a photo from the 1950’s. Wearing a variety of long-line bras and tight black pantie-girdles, she manages to add some rather good ideas of her own too.
