Thanks a lot for enlightening me! The static prop workaround doesn't seem to save much work, though. If the clothing would be a tight fitting dress, it would be easy to convert it to a prop once and then use the cloth simulator on it for the final pose and finally calculate the hair dynamics for the single hair group. But a fur coat is stiff and can't be properly handled in a cloth simulation. I guess I will decide in each case which way is the easiest, now that I know the limitations and tricks.