Jim Burton: as long as you don't exceed the elasticity limits of the cloth, it should keep up with the figure as it changes. it's probably not the best way to do it, BTW, but if I'm going to be doing a animation where I CAN NOT start from something close to a zero pose, I'll figure out what the beginning is going to be, and make that the end of a 20 frame animation; run the drape/anim from zero-pose to that point, then export the cloth as a .obj. That way you can import the cloth to the weird twisted form, use that as your starting point for the animation as long as you turn off "start from zero pose" in your clothify settings. that sounded much to weird to actually make sense to anyone, but I can't figure out a easier way to say it.