Quote - Hi all,

So I'm quite new to Daz (and Poser too) but my plan down the road is to make clothing.  I want to make unique items that not everyone has access to for my artwork... anyway.  My understanding at this point is that I'll need to model the clothing in a 3D application (I use/have blender) then tinker back and forth.

You will need three programs:  (1) a modeling program, which you already have; (2) a UV mapping program (highly recommend UV Layout); and (3) a paint program of some sort to create textures.

Quote - That's about all I have at this point.  I'm also sort of aware not understanding completely that there are two types of clothing?

There are indeed two types of clothing:  (1) conforming; and (2) dynamic.

Conforming clothing is actually a "figure" that has joints and so forth just like the figure that "wears" it.  It fits over and moves with the main figure.

Dynamic clothing (in Poser) is an object that is "draped" over the figure in the Cloth Room.  It is much easier to make than conforming clothing; however, it has its own peculiarities, and you need to spend a fair amount of time fiddling with the settings to understand how they work.

In DS, you can't create dynamic clothing, because the DS dynamic clothing feature uses output from Optitex, an extremely expensive, high-end pattern-making program that, last I heard, costs about $10,000.

Quote - I guess what I'm asking for is sort of a 'dumbed down' step by step process of how this typically goes, and if possible helpful information and or links to get me started in my research.  Oh and other applications or anything I might need to aquire.  Any and all information will be helpful as I said, I'm really quite new, the most I've done is posed my models and moved around dials to create 'new' characters.

You won't get a full answer to that in a forum.  One could write an entire book about that-- and in fact, someone has:  B.L. Render's Secrets of Figure Creation with Poser 5.  It is the content creator's "bible" and I highly recommend buying it.  It was written several years ago, but the information is still valid, and it's well worth the money.  You could go through a gazillion online tutorials and such and still not have half the information in this book.

Hope that helps.