I'm doing a project where a character changes clothes (off-camera). It's not an animation but I need the character to be wearing outfit A for the first 44 frames and then at frame 52 reappear wearing outfit B. What I've discovered so far is that deleting A at any point along the timeline is retroactive to frame 1 and the same applies to making A not visible. Since conforming clothes appear to be parented to the figure, they do not have translation dials that would allow me to send them to outer space somewhere around frame 48.

What obvious thing am I overlooking here? Must I have multiple versions of the same character in the scene wearing different outfits that get swapped out in one of these intervening non-rendered frames, or is it possible to have clothing change at a given frame?