Abstract

Entrepreneurship has been observed to work among couples who have mutual understanding and trust. It has also been observed to have more advantages in terms of the synergy that can bring about achieving more, one’s business been in safe hands and building marital fidelity. Nevertheless, it has also been conceived by some individuals that joint business among couples can lead to instability and arguments that arise from financial matters of the business. There are several studies in marriage and family business, effect of family on entrepreneurship, fashion marketing environment, fashion marketing strategies, fashion communication etc and none focuses on family fashion business in Nigerian socio-cultural and fashion marketing environment. Therefore, this study focuses on the attitudes of married couples and marriageable singles in establishing joint clothing and textile business. A total of 30 graduate students of Clothing and Textiles were purposefully selected for the study because they are trained to acquire vocational and entrepreneurial skills to be job creators (not job seekers), employers of labour and maintaining balance family life. Result shows that the respondents have favorable attitude to entrepreneurial skills, business management, home management, financial issues, risk management, cultural values and personality with mean scores of 3.48, 3.21, 3.13, 3.09, 3.53, 3.75 and 2.60 respectively. The overall attitudinal score is 3.26 indicating a favorable response that couples and marriageable singles can establish joint fashion business.

Therefore this study recommends that couples who intend to own joint businesses should have mutual understanding, trust and communicate more about financial matters before they own a joint business. They should discover an appropriate way of handling the business with maturity and proper organization so as to avoid conflicts.

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