Abstract
The study was a case study of students clothing maintenance practices of Alvan
Ikoku Federal College of Education, Owerri Municipal Council of Imo State. The
specific purposes were to study the Components of clothing maintenance practices,
Problems encountered and Solutions to the problems encountered in the process of
clothing maintenance by students in Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education,
Owerri. Three research questions guided the study. The population for the study
was 1,346 students from five (5) departments of Vocational and Technical
Education, Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education, Owerri. Data were collected
from a sample size of 200 respondents using stratified random sampling technique.
Instrument for data collection was structured questionnaire. Data were analyzed
using mean and standard deviation. The findings include 22 components of
clothing maintenance practices, 28 problems associated with clothing maintenance
practices and 13 solutions to the problems associated with students clothing
maintenance practices. Based on the findings, the recommendation among others is
that students should adhere to the identified clothing maintenance practices, to
reduce possibilities of contracting contagious diseases as well as having durable
and lasting clothing items.