...scale copy of dress slitghtly smaller, flip the normals, the stitch up the seams with some more polys or just weld the seam vertices. I'm not sure what the cloth-room would think about that relative to it needing to be an open-tube, but technically, it still fits that description, I think. You might have some self-collision issues, though.

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