Sub-figures in Org Mode

[Jason Ross]

Are there any workarounds people use to create subfigures in Org Mode
when exporting to LaTeX? Example output:

#+begin_example latex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{subcaption}
\begin{document}
\begin{figure}
\begin{subfigure}{.5\textwidth}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=.8\linewidth]{image1}
  \caption{1a}
  \label{fig:sfig1}
\end{subfigure}%
\begin{subfigure}{.5\textwidth}
  \centering
  \includegraphics[width=.8\linewidth]{image2}
  \caption{1b}
  \label{fig:sfig2}
\end{subfigure}
\caption{plots of....}
\label{fig:fig}
\end{figure}
\end{document}
#+end_example

Based on how ox-latex.el handles images I don't see how this would be
possible but the people on this list are a lot smarter than I am so
maybe one of you has found a way.