I wish I had bought modo back when it was 199 LOL. LittleFox has some good clothing and hair creation tutorials using it. I have them but haven't had the time to see how adaptable they are to other tools.
BTW if you click top of forum and click on Kixum you can see his activity feed, and gallery where you can see some of the items he has modeled.

here is a thread on 3d-coat in the carrara forums http://www.daz3d.com/forums/viewthread/36648/