@odf - as you found out, nope... everything was done from scratch, one joint at a time :) My missus was watching a yoga thing (Namaste? I forget) on TV when the idea struck me to mess with something in that direction, just to see how it would look. (Heck, the last pose set I did was for, err, r'otica... I put 'em together to help Diane out a bit during the site rebuild, before we could find her someone to help her with the servers full-time. Now, if you really want me to give the joints a serious run-through test... >:) )

No worries offhand on the toes, though... I see what you were shooting for, and yeah, they look way better once you get 'em centered (just that in close-up it looks kinked-out along the y-axis, like it was translated). Tried loading a fresh figure, same deal. "Restoring" the element (CTRL+E in D|S) swore that that was where it was supposed to be.

Otherwise, seriously, the joints and the mesh's reaction to movement kicks 98 shades of well, you know :)

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FWIW, rigging clothing manually is more art than science... a blank cr2 will be worth its weight in platinum (with gold slathered on top, naturally). 

PJ speaks wise ab't the skirts, too. They're evil, and before dynamics, it was easier to just paint the $@#! things. :)

Nota Bene: I remember (again, the r'otica thing - sue me) having an idea about making an invisible hip (or a fake intermediary hip, with the real hip consisting of a single small invisible pair of vertices) in skirts and pants, so that they could slide up and down somewhat realistically (tweak a pair of conformed pants sometime by dragging the hip up and down along its y-axis with IK on the pants but not the underlying figure... and watch what the pant cuffs do :) ). Never had the time to really dig into that and do anything fun with it.

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@Fisty - will give yer MAT files a shot and see how they hold up :) Want me to hunt for flaws, or...?