If we made a list of the "Top 10 Poser Problems", this will probably come out as no 1... EVERY Poser user has scratched their heads over this when trying to put clothes on a figure for the first time. Since I think that Poser users (including you, sophie) are fairly intelligent people, this leads me to believe that this particular part of the Poser interface is not very well thought out... Hope they make it less confusing in Poser 6, if there will be such a thing somewhere in the future ;-)