Laurie (and others), please help me out here:

My scenario/requirements:

I have an existing Poser skirt, or midriff length blouse figure - and I want to pull it into my (Silo?) software and extend the length.  Perhaps I even want to add a shin bend to the skirt, or an abdomen bend to the blouse.  Or maybe I want to take a fitted piece of dynamic clothing and turn it into a figure.

Questions:

• What type of software and broad techniques do I need to be able to do this?

e.g.: (i) modeling (Silo), (ii) uv map adjustments (Silo), (iii) Rigging (?), (iv) Rendering (Poser or something I can plug into Silo).

Am I on the right track in learning Silo and rendering it in Poser?, or will I need soemthing else (Modo?) to accomplish what I'm after?

Thanks,  - Ken