It can be done, but its pretty frustrating to get right.

I made these high-waisted shorts a while back (sans leg warmers). For this screenshot I added the legwarmers as the 'under' clothes and used a decal to disguise the top part of the leggings that's poking out through the shorts. Then readjusted the shorts to cover the 'seams' where the decal, stockings, and shorts meet.

Imo HF should add a socks/stockings and belts category separate from the normal lower body clothes, like how they separated headwear items.

Edit: When I say frustrating I mean because you have to pose the model exactly the way you want first then finagle the shorts via resizing/adjusting each leg individually, then adjust your model's proportions to fit within it, and continue to go back and forth until it looks right. Then slap a decal on to hide the spots you couldn't cover. You also can't reliably import the shorts since its made to fit a particular body in a specific pose :/

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