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>You need to transfer weights from the main body to the shirt and then fix it as you go along.
that's really the problem, my original post wrote out pretty much all that I did but that's what happens is that it's not transferring weights for whatever reason. It joins just fine and the vertex groups are there and share names with the bones, but when I highlight both meshes (the shirt with vertexes and the body that already has weight paint) it doesn't allow me to transfer the weight paint, or I'm probably transferring it incorrectly though it seems straight forward