"- need to go through tailor again if you want to use the item for another figure or even the same figure with different morphs." Or create the base morphs in the clothing, name them to match the figure's body morphs, and they will cross-talk (Poser 4/ProPack, DAZ|Studio) or settings can be copy/pasted (Poser 5/6) from figure to clothing. All conversion methods eat HD space - unless you convert, render and exit without saving using WW.