The Effects of limited fashion tools and materials on the number of Male students offering fashion design at MTSIFA

Abstract

For any given profession, one needs the necessary tools to execute a given task perfectly. Therefore just as the doctor requires his surgery kit to operate a patient, a fashion designer needs her tool kit too to guide her through the design development, cutting and sewing process. Therefore, this study was carried out at Margaret trowel school of industrial and fine arts Makerere University to examine the effects of the limited fashion tools and materials and the number of Male students offering fashion design at MTSIFA. The study involves the background information on fashion. A problem was stated plus the study was guided by the following objectives. 1. To investigate the tools and materials used in fashion design. 2. To assess how a student’s choice to do fashion design is determined by The knowledge about the availability of fashion tools and materials at MTSIFA. 3. To investigate the reason behind the small number of the Male students in the fashion class. The study findings revealed that fashion tools and materials are crucial in the stiudy of fashion design and concluded that most Male students left fashion because of the gender based bias that fashion is for women and that the list of requirements was too long and pushed many to leave therefore, career training was recommended as one of the ways to stop the gender based bias on course units.