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I think I would take issue with the way the sentence is written, before I would worry about the puncuation. "Silky" applied to physique is somewhat misplaced. We have:

smooth
rippled
oily
silky
miniscule

...all appearing in the same sentence.

How about something along the lines of:

Their smooth, oily skin betrayed rippling muscles underneath, and the sheerness of the costumes caught everyone's attention. (Only dropped one there).

Their muscular physiques shone with an oily vitality, threatening to burst from the miniscule costumes. All eyes were upon them.

Branwyn, I'm just fooling around here trying to convey what you're saying in a different way.

Are these aliens or creatures of some type? I wish I knew the setup. Are these little beings?

Tri

Branwyn said:

Smooth skin covered rippled muscles and their silky, oiled physiques wearing miniscule costumes, caught everyone’s attention.

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I agree with triceretops that the sentence needs work. It took me several read-throughs before I could parse the meaning well enough to assess the punctuation.

As written, however, the punctuation is not correct. The comma after 'costumes' shouldn't be there. I think a comma is needed after 'muscles', but that depends on whether I'm parsing 'skin covered' the way you intend.

I'd lose the comma after costumes. In two minds about whether I'd put one after muscles.

I'd rewrite the sentence, although I have to admit silky oiled muscles in wee costumes would get my attention as well.

;-)

They were very much alive and Raven took note of that fact, intensely. Smooth skin covered rippled muscles and their silky, oiled physiques wearing miniscule costumes, caught everyone’s attention.

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I think the confusion comes from "wearing." How's this:

Smooth skin covered rippled muscles and their silky, oiled physiques, clad in miniscule costumes, caught everyone’s attention.

Just to answer the question...

Smooth skin covered rippled muscles and their silky, oiled physiques wearing miniscule costumes, caught everyone’s attention.

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Two grammatical issues: the comma, and the physiques wearing costumes. Your physique doesn't wear your clothes any more than your tan does

ETA: I'd say your physique doesn't get to be clad either. Your body can, though.

Having said that, I'd vote for rewrite too. It's a lovely image, but right now the words are getting in the way a bit.

It's true, "physique" can mean "body", but it's got connotations that profile the constitution anyway.

You wouldn't say, "My physique aches all over" for example. It just... doesn't work.

It's the problem with dictionaries. They don't give us usage context.

Silly dictionaries.

Did you rewrite the sentence? I'm curious about the semi-nekkid hot people

The scantily clad dancers writhed sinuously, muscle rippling beneath their oiled, silky-smooth skin, mesmerizing all who watched.

MinUscule.

Also, that sentence's syntax indicates that the "physiques" belong to the "muscles". It would be much clearer as two sentences.

However, these three dancing works of art were far from dead. They were very much alive and Raven took note of that fact, intensely. Smooth skin covered rippled muscles. Their silky, oiled physiques, clad in minuscule costumes, caught everyone’s attention.

I also think that "rippling muscles" is better than "rippled muscles", in terms of accuracy of description. Even so, it's a bit of a cliche--maybe a noun ("ridges of muscle"? "crisp planes of muscle"?) might be a little more effective?

I really like how strongly you focus on visual and tactile imagery here. That has the capacity to be really powerful, so it's probably worth tweaking it until it feels just right to you.

i don't think "smooth skin covering rippled muscles" makes sense.
I know what is implied, but it gives me the impression the skin is moving, not the muscle. The muscle moves underneath the skin. if we can see the muscle moving beneath the skin of these scantily clad dancers, then we assume that a well formed physique is what we are seeing.
Also, most importantly, "rippled" muscle implies that the muscle is in a frozen state and has stopped rippling while the other observations in the sentence are made.

Minuscule is not appropriate either in my opinion, because i don't know how much skin is actually being revealed. So in my edit:

The scantily clad dancers writhed sinuously, muscle rippling beneath their oiled, silky-smooth skin, mesmerizing all who watched.

the provacative dancing is what the audience is paying attention to. If you want to be more precise and read that the audience is focusing on the exposed flesh, you have to be more specific.