Deeply feeling the importance of strong foundations in basic skills for professional costume designers, Lin, when she came back from the US, carefully picked students to became old-fashioned apprentices, learning correct concepts and methods without having to pay tuition.
深感紮實的基本功和正確觀念的重要，當年自美返台後，她就嚴選學生，免費地以傳統「師徒相授」的「私塾」方式，身教言教雙管齊下。