I'm not sure that I entirely agree with your assesment... if you look right next to her thigh, you see what is apparently the inside of the dress (backside of polygons) being lit from the front as you might expect it to be. Have you tried making a global light, pointing up from her knees to see if you can in fact light that dark area? I could just be the particular light set up.

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