Quote - Where did I go wrong? Does this mean I should be modelling with no morphs and no scaling on the original figure and once I rigged the clothes and fits perfectly, I do the morphs and scaling next to the figure and to the clothes?!

You need to model around the base figure, no morphs and DEFINATELY NO SCALING!
More advanced modelers and riggers can get away with introducing morphs, but scaling body parts almost always creates problems. (Except for a few experts, and I'm not one of those)

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