Thank you everyone for the responses. Everyone here is so helpful :)

Biggert: I thought about doing the shoes as postwork and may end up trying that just to see if I can do it. I was hoping to take the easy way out and find some conforming, easy to understand/use items. This is still so new to me that anything too complicated usually ends up with a render in the trash bin ;)

randy: Thanks much for the links. I'm going to do some shopping later today :) I don't mind paying for items and in fact, the mystikal dress and accessory pack were in my wishlist there so that gives me an excuse to buy them ;)

I do have the V3 hooded cloak. I was serious when I said getting 2 figures in a render was still a big deal for me ;) I was so happy I managed that and then got stuck on her feet so figured I would post and then worry about figuring out the cloak for the final render.

Genny: This leads me to another question. You can use V2 stuff on V3?

Towal