2) Can I get the shin to do the same thing? No. Each side of the shins part of the skirt would have to be a shin. And that would run into the same problem as with cross-welding the fingers in e.g. a dragon wing. And you would have to text-edit extra weld commands into the dress's .CR2 file. And that would %$&#;@&* the rendering because of some funny bug (at least in Poser 4).