Clothing and attachments

Hi folks. I'm new here and have been playing with the clothing templates. I've come to the conclusion that what I want to do is not possible with the templates and will require attachments. The reason being that the garments I want to model have huge baggy sleeves and pantlegs.

1. Is there any way to fix the resolution on prims?
   
2. Can prims be textured with alpha channel textures?
   

I'm asking this because the clothes are multi-layered. I am trying to simulate the puff and slash style popular in 16th century germany. Any advice, suggestions or flames are welcome.

Phoenix Zircon

you can change the object detail in the preferances menu under the options tab

and yes you can put alphas on prims