Coming out of her shell

I thought i had discovered a way to rectify the problem of baggy stockings that not only look terrible on the legs of V4 and every other character i assume, but also over run shoe surfaces. There are ways to work around this, a tutorial by Callad on DA shows who, but its way beyond my skill level. Then i hit on the idea that i could use The lacemaker, and surfaces to create a net layer on the new geometry shell and by that means cure all that horrible bagginess, hooray!!
Unfortunately i seem to have hit yet another skills famine. I can make the stocking layers but i do not know how to then leave the rest of V4 as normal. She refuses to take off the rest of the shell. I am probably missing something basic here, just don't know what, any suggestions please.
The screen shot will show the problem i think.


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Have you set the opacity for all other surfaces to 0?
Oh its just so obvious that it hurts. Thank you so much...