Re: [h-cost] What is a serious costumer?

2008-03-02 Thread Audrey Bergeron-Morin
A professional costumer is one who gets paid for her services and who lists such income on her tax forms at the end of the year. And some of the professional costumers know less than we do about historical costumes. It all depends what they specialize in. Some who call themselves amateurs

Re: [h-cost] What is a serious costumer?

2008-02-28 Thread Susan Carroll-Clark
Andrew Trembley wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good evening to all of you and hope my series of questioning doesn't seem silly but for some reason I am still having trouble trying to decypher the difference between an amateur costumer (myself, one who has a general knowledge of a topic) and

Re: [h-cost] What is a serious costumer?

2008-02-27 Thread Melanie Schuessler
Justine, I wouldn't worry so much about labels. All of us have different skill sets, and we all aim to improve over time. Some of us are lucky enough to make our living doing this, but there are many others who are quite serious and highly skilled but who are not technically

Re: [h-cost] What is a serious costumer?

2008-02-27 Thread Dawn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am still having trouble trying to decypher the difference between an amateur costumer (myself, one who has a general knowledge of a topic) and one who is a serious costumer, or professional. A professional costumer is one who gets paid for her services and who

Re: [h-cost] What is a serious costumer?

2008-02-27 Thread Andrew Trembley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good evening to all of you and hope my series of questioning doesn't seem silly but for some reason I am still having trouble trying to decypher the difference between an amateur costumer (myself, one who has a general knowledge of a topic) and one who is a serious