This was an very informative read, thank you AmbientShade. 

Also thanks for your concern about my email address, I'm sure one can find it in my public profile and in all the readme files of my Freestuff content. 

That's been said, I gladly admit that I have underestimate the complexity of this whole content creating endeavor. I really thought I finally had a grasp of how it works after I build several items, both dynamic and conforming clothing items. Looks like I still have to learn a few tricks.

I noticed that most of the clothing items for Daz Studio nowadays are dforce dependent, which is, I assume, the pedant of Posers cloth simulation, right? This seems to be a lot easier and as far as I can tell, the renders are looking much more natural. 

I have to think about this.