I've made a couple of pairs of shoes for PE, I posed PE's feet and modeled the shoe around that I then imported the model and parented it to her left foot then zeroed PE went into fittiing and created a figure, works like a charm as I only went as far as the foot so no issues with the toes,

I got carried away with my cobbling skills and made a pair of ankle boots, which of course go up the shins a little so following the previous pattern I get the shin bent back when it is conformed. If I try to fit it with PE posed then everything looks okay until I conform it, at which point the foot of the boot bends down below PE's foot but the shin stays correct. There must be a way of doing this, modelling to PE in zero for something like boots just isn't really possible, well not for someone with my (lack) of modelling skills. Surely it must be possible to transfer the bones from a donor in a posed position with the donee getting that skeleton with rotations that would be zeroed out if the figure is zeroed.

I've tried all combintions I can think of Zero PE in the fitting room, don't zero, zero rotations when creating the figure, don't zero rotations when creating the figure. Any help with this specific requirement would be most appreciated. I can share the rudimentary model if that helps.