A question for ladies that use corsets. When first purchasing a corset for waist training how many sizes smaller should be purchased?

Corsets are sized in inches. To determine your corset size you have to measure around your true waist, which is normally just above your belly button. Once you know it, you have to subtract 4 to that number and what you get is your corset size. For example, if your waist is 30 inches, your corset size is 26.

Now, when you purchase your corset, you do not have to close it completely. There should be a gap between the two sides, and that is normal. With time, you will be able to close it more. Once you are able to close it completely, you can purchase a corset size smaller. Using the previous sample, that would be a size 24. Corsets are sized only in even numbers.

Of course there are downsides to wearing a corset. One of them is that your abdominal muscles may lose their strength due to not being used - exercising is key when one uses a corset regularly. Also, some people may find that it makes them bloated.

What a corset does not is crush your ribs, make you infertile or other numbers of myths people who have never worn a corset like to point out.

Almost no one wears corsets these days or bothers with "waist training". Even in the late 19th century, many people decided corsets were unhealthy.

done in inches when they wore then ages ago