The dresses are based partly around the same method Anton's Egyptians use. That seemed to be the only way Poser4 was going to be able to do a truely flexible skirt. While making it, some testers had some issues with the posing, so I decided to make the shins independantly poseable, so that the dress would mostly conform. They seemed to like that better. When you conform the long dresses, everything but the shins will move into place. You then use the body handles of the shins to pose them to match Vicky. I suggest using the dials its faster, easier; I find it doesn't take much for msot poses. The upside? of being able to pose them to accomodate for gravity if you want. The short dresses don't have this, and conform fine. All the dresses have various fix poses that can be used to compensate for pose limitations inherent to the design. They fade the inside of the leg of the dress in and out, or move the inside corners up and down to correct problems. A little experimentation should leave those easy to use. On the sitting midnight blue image the dress conformed to everything but the shins. The shins were then posed down.. and two fixposes were used to bring the inside edge of dress inward to look like it had settled into the lap slightly.