Profession

[Allen165]

Is designing clothes a profession? I would think so, but I remember reading somewhere that there are only three professions.

Thanks!

[5jj]

Is designing clothes a profession? I would think so, but I remember reading somewhere that there are only three professions.

In the strictest use of the word, designing clothes is not a 'profession'. I think that anybody who claimed now that it were not might find themselves accused of being a little pompous.

[Barb_D]

There are an almost limitless number of professions. Certainly clothing designer is one. If your memory is accurate, I can only assume that the person who wrote that was writing tongue-in-cheek. I wonder what his other two were, since surely "the oldest profession" should have been one of them.

[Barb_D]

I posted simultaneously with the post above, not as a rebuttal.

[5jj]

I didn't take it as one. My answer was meant to imply (not very successfully, I now feel) what your second sentence made explicit.