PARTIAL LIST OF WILBRO ADVERTISEMENTS
Which Appeared in Personal Columns of Sunday Times (UK), 1976-78
June (?) 1976TIGHT-LACING VICTORIAN Corsets for figure control and glamour.
June 13, 1976 STRICT CORSET DISCIPLINE makes you wasp waisted and alluring. Corsetry for every figure and every purpose.
June 27, 1976TIGHT-LACING CORSETS let you forget your figure worries. We will lace and bone you to perfection.
July 18, 1976 A HAND SPAN WAIST is heavily-boned and tightly-laced!
Sept 21, 1976 VICTORIAN WASP-WAIST Corsets for connoisseurs!
Oct 10, 1976 TIGHTLY-LACED SATIN CORSETS for well-boned waist glamour.
Oct 17, 1976 DISCOVER YOUR NEW FIGURE as you are laced into boned Corsets!
Oct ? 1976 WASP-WAISTED SATIN CORSETS for tight-laced glamour.
Jan 2, 1977 BUSK-FASTENED back-lacing corsets for the traditional corset wearer!
Feb 1977EXPERIENCED CORSET WEARERS enjoy the pull of the stay-lace!
Feb 13, 1977 A STRICTLY-CORSETED FIGURE is the admiration of all!
May 1, 1977 YOUR CORSET-CONTROLLED FIGURE will be the envy of your friends!
May 15, 1977WITH BREATHE HELD TIGHT and the lacer’s knee in your back, let your corset lacing begin! Catalogue of Tight-lacing Corsets and Fashion Corsets, 35p
May 22 1977 PULL-PULL-PULL on those corset laces, and make that insubordinate figure submit!
May 29, 1977 COMPULSORY CORSETTING ensures the control and poise of well-boned confidence!
Also HAND MADE VICTORIAN CORSETS to your measurements (Vollers)
June 12, 1977 UNCOMPROMISING CORSETS will master the most stubborn figure!
June 26, 1977 COUTURE CORSETING gives irresistible wasp waist allure!
Sep 4, 1977 INFLEXIBLE BONING and stern lacing for the exacting demands of the corset-conscious woman. Luxury corsets of all types.
Oct 16, 1977 TRAINING CORSETS for the figure conscious! Traditional fashion and rubber corsets.
Oct 30, 1977 THE GLOSSY SLEEKNESS of a satin-covered corset adds to the thrill of the Staylace! Specialist Corsetieres in figure-training
Nov 13, 1977 AN IRRESISTIBLE WASP-WAIST shows your enthusiasm for Corset-training! Discipline and tight-lacing styles for all purposes.
Jan 22, 1978 YOUR SEVERELY-BONED and strictly-laced figure is the hall-mark of the determined Corset-trainer. Traditional and discipline corsets.
TABLE 1
WILBRO CORSETRY
1976 RANGE
TYPE REF No of
Models
1SUSPENDER BELTS SB 4
2FRONT LACING HOOKSIDE CORSETS FHC 5
3PULL-ON GIRDLES PO 5
4HOOKSIDE CORSETSTHC 12
5HOOKSIDE CORSETS WITH UNDERBELTHCU 4
6FRONT LACING BUSK FRONT CORSETS FLB 4
7FRONT LACING BUSK FRONT CORSETS WITH
UNDERBELTFLBU 2
8BACK-LACING BUSK FRONT CORSETS BLB 6
9BACK-LACING BUSK FRONT CORSETS WITH
UNDERBELTBLBU 4
10BUSK FRONT WRAPROUND CORSETS BWC 4
11CORSELETTESCS 6
12CORSELETTES WITH UNDERBELTCSU 2
13ZIPPED GIRDLES ZG 11
14PANTIE GIRDLES PG 9
15ZIPPED PANTIE GIRDLES ZPG 2
16RUBBER CORSETS RC 4
17PERIOD CORSETS (READY TO WEAR) PCRW2
18PERIOD CORSETRY (MADE TO MEASURE) PCMM 10
19MADE TO MEASURE CORSETS FOR LADIES MMCL 5
20MADE TO MEASURE CORSETS FOR GENTLEMEN MMCG 6
21CAMP SURGICAL CORSETRY SC 5
22SURGICAL BELTS FOR GENTLEMEN GSC 1
TOTAL 113