svdl - those look like extremely interesting items you're working on (twidling fingers in eager anticipation).
The Hybrid examples I've seen so far look like the way to go for many items. The best of both - sounds good to me. I don't know the technicalities of modelling such items, but having details that remain intact during a sim would be very cool.
Someone mentioned earlier about being able to see the clothing while you're posing the figure (an obvious advantage of conforming items) - I agree that this helps a great deal with frame composition, and working with dynamic clothing can sometimes be a lengthy distraction. Hopefully running simulations will get quicker.
EdW - 30 seconds to run a cloth sim! I've got to get me a hardware upgrade!

Thanks for the comments on the Apollo and V4 renders BTW. That P7 morph brush is quite a liberating tool for making head morphs.

 

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