My first experiment with that method was basically successful, but of course it is a very simple outfit and hard to mess up much. I'd been putting it off because I assumed it would be a lot harder than it turned out to be, but I think I will probably use that method a lot, even though I now have the fitting room. I like the amount of control I get. The only thing is, I ended up making 2 different versions of the skirt, one with thighs and one without, and they each have their own set of problems. I made it with the thighs first, and it moves with her legs when she poses but it splits in the middle instead of bending. I remembered reading that some skirts end at the hip, so I tried that, and it stays nicer in the middle, but her thighs pop out of it. So I'm not sure what the best way to handle that is.

My second experiment was a total disaster. It was a pair of jeans for another figure, Angela. They looked pretty before they were posed, and then it all just went very wrong. I'm assuming this has something to do with the joints? I had already tried it in the fitting room and that wasn't going the way I wanted either (the legs melted together in the middle) so I decided to do it by hand.