EnglishBob, I could KISS you! lol.

I've included an image of all the previously offending parts of the dress.

The sleeve hems are within the constrained group. I tried them in the soft decorated group, but they sunk into her arms on the inside with this pose. The good thing is that the bodice of this dress is so fitted that including the sleeve hems in the constrained group turns out to look better in this case. The skirt hem is in the soft decorated group and kept it's approximate shape and still draped nice. Thanks so much guys! You're a huge help :o).

In the image I used the original resolution of the dress which is already a whopping 8537 verts. You can see the mesh break a little bit in this pose around the center hip area. Subdividing sends it over 20,000 (even though it does look great I wouldn't use a mesh that high unless I was doing a cameo with few other props or objects in the scene ;o)). How big is too big for a dynamic dress? I have no idea...lol. Judging by the dynamic cloth plane included in Poser, the resolution is fairly high on that too. Anyway...

I guess I'll call it finished then so now I can uv map and texture it :o). Wish me luck with that...gonna take some fancy mapping and I'm not sure I'm the one to do it, but I'll give it a shot...lol.

(edit): I guess I should mention that the smoothing on the dress is set at 110 and that the hems are all rolled completely around and welded from the front edge to the inside of the dress :o).

Laurie