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and textile education is expected to provide students with requisite skills and
techniques necessary to make them self reliant and employable in the labour
market after gradation. The entrepreneurship potentials in clothing and
textiles are:
1.
Dry cleaning and
laundering: Dry cleaning and laundering is one of job opportunities in which
graduates of clothing and textiles can engage themselves. Anyakwha (2007)
outline the work of Dry-cleaners and launders to include: to dry clean launder.
Clothes for people and to engage in the production and selling of cassava
starch and home chemical for stain removal. Therefore graduates of clothing and
textiles can involve themselves in dry cleaning and laundering for economics
empowerment.
2.
Dress
making/clothes construction: Okeke and Anyakwha (2004) defined dress
making/cloths construction as the act of designing, cutting, arranging and
sewing different component of dresses the skills in dressmaking/constructions
are usually acquired in primary and secondary schools through needle work,
clothing construction classes and fashion designing classes in schools. The
skills in dress making/construction can be achieved outside the school
programme through apprenticeship. Lernctu (2002) pointed out that the most
common means of acquiring skills is through apprenticeship.
3.
Beauty care and
hair dressing. Hair dressing and beauty care is another business venture available
in clothing and textile education, beauty care and hair dress professionals
open and run salons where they take care of people’s hair and perform other
beauty treatment to earn a living.
4.
Fashion merchandising
and modeling: modeling is a business in which graduates or students of clothing
and textile wears newly designed dress styles for people to see (through cat
walking in fashion exlubition shows) and buy. The models, are paid for the
service they provide. Fashion merchandising is another area of entrepreneurship
opportunity for students of clothing and textiles. Lerndiu (2002) states that
merchandising involves a situation where students/ graduates select, buy and
sell textile appealers and others clothing accessories in other to earn a
living such cloth accessories range from Nigeria wax wrappers, chieftaincy wears causal wears, suit, jewelries, shoes
and bages, and other accessories.
5.
Pattern illustration:
This is one area where designers are mostly need. Pattern making involves the
making of patterns for males and females, children and adults alike for sale to
earn money (Anyakoha, 2007)
6.
Knitting and
crocheting shop: clothing and textile education provides students with the
skills to engage in knitting and crocheting to earn a living. It provides students
with the skills to knit cardigan for both adults and children.
7.
Other
employment/entrepreneurship opportunities in clothing and textiles are
designing, tie-dying and befikaing.