Okay so after fighting the mesh and sorting that out i have created a basic set of clothing.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5398233/badwolf ... dancer.zip
if anybody wants to do some textures or otherwise edit this set just please post your results.
(and yes im not a real artist im just trying to inspire the ones around here)
[and i have found the blender "solidify" function nifty]