title: How Do I Get Customer Custom Attribute Value
body: <p>When I run the following two lines of code, I get returned the value 161. Now if I dig through <code>customer_eav</code>, I see 161 relates to <code>attribute_id</code> 477, and then if I dig further into <code>customer_entity_varchar</code> I find a row with <code>field['attribute_id']=477</code> and the value is USD. How can I get this attribute string value using magento's models / methods...</p>
  
  <pre><code>$customer = $session-&gt;getCustomer();
  $attributes = $customer-&gt;getDefaultCurrency(); // returns 161... not USD
  </code></pre>