Tailoring - Stuck...help!

[Vandaen]

Tailoring won't go up, fancy shirts got me to 49.8 (41.6 real skill), then went through 4k cloth w/o a point. I adjusted my skills (gained int, dropped dex) and tailoring dropped to 49.0? (real skill stayed at 41.6) Now, fancy shirts won't budge, and doublets apparently won't either.

Been through 5k cloth on each type of item.

Should I move my dex back up to see if that raises my adjusted skill? I had like 33 dex and moved it down to 25, and if it correlates/synergizes/whatever like I think it does, that dropped my tailoring by .8, so if I raise dex up to 50 will it also raise my tailoring adjusted skill so I can start on robes and bypass this hump? I've never heard of skills/stats correlating like this but in theory it makes sense so I figure I'll ask...

.....is this supposed to work this way? Or is the system just treating me like the red-headed step-child that I am?

Any help is appreciated.

Edited to add 5k cloth wasted on cloaks w/o a point. Any help/suggestions at all? This is getting ridiculously annoying.