I'm building clothing meshes for use in the cloth room. My prelimenary designs have shown that there is a relationship between how the mesh is designed and how well it performs under certain stretching and deformation sequences. As an example, lets say you have a piece of clothing with a strap that runs over the shoulder, you want the clothing item to fit well and conform to the body without the stap becoming distorted in the process. I have seen in my experiments that by interrupting lines with tesselated polygons so as to isolate the strap area from continuos lines runing across the chest you can dramatically reduce distortion. Note*Conforming clothing is not the solution I'm seeking.
As a corrolary to this idea automobile safety designs use engineered crumple zones to dissapate energy and reduce deformation in one area be increasing it in another.