Yeah I hear ya. It would be nice if someone would design an app whereas you could load  the clothing figure and the the character of a figure it is based on, press a button and wahlah it analyzes and pushes the right vertices in place where they need to go or in an approximate (since a clothing item may have more vertices than the base figure it was designed on). If it could analyze and calculate shape and form and push the vertices relatively to where they need to be, that would be great. It would could also be a feature similar to Rhino's "Flow Along Curve" whereas you could define the shape by sectioning the base top to bottom and side to side and the siftware analyzes the shape against the mesh vertices and moves them appropriately. It's time like this I wish I was a top notch programmer.. I could most certainly rake in the dough with an app like that. :o)