It's not that, because everything else in the scene renders with its textures just fine. Other clothing items, characters etc, all work as they should. It's just those Vicky default clothing items that get their textures wiped off at render time. I've even rebooted and started a brand new scene from scratch, loading only the bikini bottom and nothing else, applying the texture,and rendering. Same result: the texture appears on the figure in the document window as though it is applied correctly, then gets wiped clean off mysteriously as the render line flows up the screen. I'm stumped.