Quote - Ah I see what you were talking about now.

Parent cloth to figure.
Shrink figure at frame 1.
Grow figure in a later frame back to 100%.
Unparent the cloth.
It's doing something different now.

You have to make sure that when you grow the figure back to 100%, the cloth stays at its smaller size. I'm not sure right now about the correct sequence of growing and unparenting that achieves that, but I know I've done it.

Anyway, the idea is that if you grow the figure back while keeping the cloth small, the effect should be the same as if you kept the size of the figure constant and shrink-wrapped the cloth onto it.

-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.