Attached Link: Riot Grrrl Bootz

The 2nd and 3rd promos for this fine product features a very nice sack cloth dynamic dress: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?ViewImage=95042

Has anyone seen a conforming dress that could be adapted to an "institutional" hopital/prison dress similar to this? I am trying to use PhilC's tools to make a dress like this from a morphing pillowcase I have but if this already exists as a conforming style dress it would save me a lot of work :)

You could take any loose-fitting conforming dress and make parts of it transparent by material ...

Isn't it basically the same thing as a sleeveless blouse? 

Maybe the V3 Morphing Starlet dress, with a transmap to shorten the skirt.

Quote - Maybe the V3 Morphing Starlet dress, with a transmap to shorten the skirt.

That might be the thing! I'll try it.
Maybe the V4 Morphing Fantasy Dress?

The Morphing Fantasy Dress is close-fitting.  The Starlet Dress is rather baggy, which is why I suggested it.  It's sleeveless, and has very low-cut armholes.  The silky textures it comes with look like a modern evening gown, but with plainer textures, it makes a good "primitive" looking dress.

I like everyone's suggestion and especially agree with using transparency maps to modify any garmet be it conforming or dynamic.  One question, do you know how to create transmaps using a 2d program and applying it?  Jan

It depends on how hard or easy the UVmap is to work with.  e.g. I try to make an easy UVmap for any model I do, like attached.  Basically, your transparency map would be WHITE for areas that are 100% of the Transparency value (which may not necessarily be 100% transparent, incidentally) , and BLACK for areas that are 100% opaque.  For another application, you could do lace or mesh like this, where the spaces between lace bits are WHITE (transparent) and the lace itself is BLACK (opaque).

edit: note that the example UVmap template I'm showing is NOT a transparency map, those are grayscale, this is the template to tell you what parts of your map will go to what parts of the model.

How do you get those solid shapes? It is hard for me to trace the shapes along the curve of the mesh when using a "wireframe" template... I have found it easier to just chose the polygons to assign to a new material in Poser with the grouping tool.

Are you asking about the UV template I'm showing?  If so, I filled in the map with different colors during the UVmapping process when I was modeling the dress in Cinema 4D.  I don't do enough texturing to say which is easier to work with, wireframe or filled, but in a commercial model I'd provide both in PSD format (some of my freebies are handled that way also).