Quote) applying clothing like pants for instance then apply a shirt and it removes the pants or vise versa so my work around is apply 1st piece and make it an accessory then apply 2nd piece then set 1st item back to clothing item kind of aggravating is this the only fix for this?

In CC3 click on conform tab
Then select Cloth Layer setting from bottom of panel.
This opens the List of clothing items and their assigned layer number, you need to select setting wheel and assign a new number to the item you want to change ( the one causing problem) and that should fix issue.
The initial thumbnail of the item in content mgr will display the layer that piece of clothing is assigned too, and when items have same number they will replace each other. so thats the answer to the first part, as to second question I will let someone else answer because i@ve never had this issue
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