Dress size limit?

[SuckingDownDarjeeling]

I've always wondered if I could physically have ever been a 'size zero'. Because I have fairly wide hips, even at my slimmest I'm not a wisp. I've dieted down to a size 8 in the past, and I wondered if size 6 or below was even technically achievable for me. I never tried to get there because I really didn't want to diet any more after that. (I have to do it all again now anyway though, I let myself go after pregnancy ).

Can a person's bone structure and build potentially limit how small their dress size could ever be? Or with enough starvation dieting, can anybody and everybody be a size zero. Whatever one of those is. I've never met one in real life 🦄

I understand some of the responses here might tell me to google it, but I tried and I'm not great at wording effective search terms. I'm interested to hear people's opinions and experiences, too.

Not to be a martyr, but if anybody who is struggling to find clothes small enough for them because they're so tiny, would like to swap with a 5'6" size 14, I will be glad to be of assistance. I'm very kind like that

I have narrow hips but am tall with a very wide torso and shoulders.
I'm right in the middle of my healthy weight and I'm still a size 14 and sometimes a 16 on top.

I was a lot thinner due to illness a few years back and I looked dreadful, no bum, no boobs, drawn and bony. I was still a size 10 though!

Plus now I work out and have muscle on my thighs and bum

@Echobelly

I don't think size 6 is achievable for everyone and is a not a 'natural' size for very many women at all (I find it sad to hear women thinking they 'should' be a size 6), and 4 is not for anyone over the age of 14. I think of size 4 as '14 year old girl' basically.

I am a grown adult woman who's a size 0, as explained above.

Skinny shaming is just as bad as fat shaming. You wouldn't comment on someone who fits in a size 24 would you? At least, not aloud.

@PerfidiousAlbion

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This is interesting. Sadly, I’m a large.

5'7" with 6 inch wrists. One of the reasons I never wear bracelets, because they are far too big. I lost the last bracelet I wore because it slipped off my wrist without me noticing.

I had to have several links taken out of my watch before I could wear it. My neck is also horribly skinny and a standard 16 inch necklace gets lost in my clothes.

The rest of me isn't skinny, just OKish. My hips are wide set though, and even though my thighs are chunky I still have a thigh gap. Even if I lost a huge amount of weight I will never be less than a 10.