It was purely by accident that I stumbled upon this thread - at the time I was looking for suggestions about P8 install problems (finally solved thank goodness).

Hosiery (esp pantyhose) in Poser has stumped me for years -  but bagginsbill's' tutorial is far and away the best I've seen to date!  I developed a .psd for a pantyhose top and waistband about a year ago as I struggled with ph-2nd skins (attached img). It seemed to me this might combine well with bagginsbill's trick - and sure enough it did! 

This is a simple .psd overlay of the waistband and gusset over the the V4 - Anais texture. I've used this on many characters by just matching the pixel dimensions of the overlay to the character. The waistband extends into the abdomen region, thus allowing for the entire hip to be designated as a material zone as in bagginsbill's tutorial. 

The final render is cooking right now...will post as soon as it's done.

Thanks, bagginsbill - you solved in an evening what has bedeviled me for years!!!!!

Paul