In CSS/HTML, an absolutely positioned element treats as it's origin the client origin of the next outermost positioned element. For example, this allows you to create one div/layer to represent a face, and to absolutely position within that div/layers for eyes, nose, mouth. Then the entire face can be repositioned in it's environment without having to manually reposition each of the facial features.
In Flash, this can also be accomplished via nested movie clips. Does Shoes have any such feature? The only positioning logic I am aware of is fully absolute, where the origin I think is always the upper-left of the window, and stacks/flows .. which brooks nothing like absolute positioning or overlap. What say ye, panel of shoesxperts? - - Jesse
