Thank you both for you willingness to help.

Hopefully I'm explaining this correctly.

I'm trying to create clothing and shoes for a figure based on the model of the figure that I have. For example to make a shoe the tutorial they create a plane and "fit" to to the bottom of the posed foot so that it conforms to the shape of the foot.

And when making clothes it shows overlaying the figure with a mesh, conforming it to the reference figure and then cutting the mesh to be the shape of the clothes you want. Almost like using a dress makers dummy to make clothes.

The tutorials mentioned use 3DS Max but I don't have a copy of that, so I wasn't sure where to start.