I'm working on a set for Sydney that is hybrid. IMO hybrid is the way to go for dress period.

I modeled them to be hybrid from the start. The top is conforming and from the hip down is dynamic. I need to put the hem on the dress, but other than that it is done. I don't think I'll release another strictly conforming dress or long sleeved shirt again.

One thing to mention too.... The groups used by the cloth room are retained in the cr2 when you save it to the library, so it's really easy to run a sim on them... just load, conform and create your sim in the cloth room. The groups are already set up, so all you have to done it clothify the hip and set the collide against figure or body parts and calculate the sim. On my older machine it takes about 2 minutes to do a 30 frame sim. On the new one it takes about 30 seconds

Ed