Pin-Up Wow review

Pin-Up Wow review | Mr. Pink's Porn Reviews
MrPinks.com review date - 03/04/2012

Overview:
Haven't you noticed that in recent years vaguely attractive women seem to be relishing some kind of nostalgia-induced power trip, a flashback to the days when Bettie Grable made whole battalions of men swoon and a thigh-high hint of stocking really was looked on as something shocking? These retro-phile chicks have been celebrating Bettie Page, dancing in amateur burlesque revues, reading (and probably not grasping) Fitzgerald, and citing Billie Holiday as a style icon. Katy Perry and Dita Von Teese are popular participants in the fad-esque neo-burlesque revival, and so is Pin-Up Wow! Devoted to keeping the pin-up and tease styles of softcore (very softcore) pornography alive, Pin-Up Wow kits out lovely young models in vintage and retro lingerie, office wear, uniforms, ball gowns, casual clothes, and all related accoutrement to pay homage to the Betties, Veronicas, Fayes, and Gingers of yesteryear. With photo galleries and videos aplenty, Pin-Up Wow is a very exciting prospect, especially if you long for more innocent days before facials and anal creampies and double-penetrations gagging blowbangs and the like. A month-long pass costs you $24.95 and gives you access to Pin-Up Wow's extensive photo and video archives, and will hopefully truly be a step back in time.

Pros:
Posing beautiful girls in a classic flirtatious manner and dressing them in gorgeous costumes from bygone eras, Pin-Up Wow is one of the few sites managing to effectively imbue its content with a real sense of playful innocence and naive eroticism; the same qualities that made pin-ups popular in the first place.

Primarily a photography site, Pin-Up Wow doesn't intend to let its paying members leave unsatisfied with the supposed visual feast within its walls. Photos are now presented at 3000px resolutions and can be downloaded in zipped packages or viewed in online albums. Video content now reaches a High Definition 1280x720 pixel resolution in WMV format.

Pin-Up Wow is definite one of the more unique concepts for a retro porn site we've seen here at Mr. Pink's. It doesn't do anything especially brazen with the pin-up formula, but the clarity of purpose, gorgeous yet everyday amateur models, and a genuine sense of fun makes it all work really nicely together.

A new photo gallery or video will be added to the site every day of the week, alternating between one content type and the other. There's already a jam-packed collection here, boasting nearly 1,000 videos and more than that same number galleries in the photo archive. This is already a large site and it's only going to get bigger.

Cons:
"All videos are HD," the tour page said, "All photos are high-res." Unfortunately, this is not true. Only those galleries and videos added in the last year or two are presented in the highest, most visually impressive formats; other content lacks the clarity and dynamic range, and it suffers greatly for it.

Pin-Up Wow has always been an oddly designed website and nothing has changed in that department. The garish color clashes, awkward layouts, endless pages of update lists, and rather basic use of basic HTML circa 1995 makes the site seem exceedingly amateur. None of the videos are granted their own pages, merely text links on a long, long list.

The two video formats available here are only offered for download, leaving those who prefer or even insist on streaming their porn are left out in the dark. Adding HD streams is definitely an upgrade that should be high on Pin-Up Wow's to-do list.

After checking out this site and its content a while, I realized there was something slightly off about the models: they're almost all too thin! Pin-ups weren't tanks, no, but they weren't tiny little ladies with petite figures, they had full lips, thick hips, and a decent set of boobs, which, unfortunately, a lot of these models lack.

Conclusion:
Attempting to do justice to the brilliantly executed pin-up posters and leaflets of the 1940s is a bold venture for any pornographer or erotic photographer. The people behind Pin-Up Wow have more to be commended for than just their boldness, though. The huge archives now online here make Pin-Up Wow a true force to be reckoned with in the tease and partial-nudity areas of the online porn world. The 720p High Definition videos look very good, as do the 3000px photos, as they show lovely young British models shyly but suggestively posing in vintage clothing and lingerie in an attempt to replicate the simple pleasures of this classic style. The design of Pin-Up Wow, however, is definitely one of the most inefficient adult site designs this reviewer can recall and it, as well as the navigation arrangements and lack of video streams, is something that needs to be immediately improved.