Abstract
The investigated the socio-psychological of Emirate Costumes on the Title Holders (TTH) of North West geo-political zone of Nigeria.
Based on the, ten specific objectives, ten research questions and seven null hypotheses were raised and relevant literatures related to the topic were reviewed.
The study adopted descriptive and historical research methods for data collection. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select four states from the zone, while hat and draw technique was used to select one emirate council from each state for the study.
The total population for the study was 134 comprising of 114 District Heads and 20 King Makers. Questionnaire, interview and photographs were used as instruments for data collection.
The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics of frequency, mean, standard deviation and standard error.
Independent t-test and chi-square were used to test the seven null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance, while an album of the available Emirate Costumes from past and present was produced.
Three out of the seven null hypotheses were accepted while the remaining four were rejected.
The finding revealed among others that there is no significant difference between the average values attached to the different emirate costume used by the TTH of Northern Nigeria in terms of cost, and type of fabric while there is significant difference in terms of design of embroidery.
Introduction
Background of Study
Clothing is an in-built characteristic of all human beings. Therefore, a single glance at the clothes people use reveals a wealth of information about how the people perceive themselves,
Each other and their place in society. Blakeslee (2012) agreed with Long been known that clothing affects how other people perceive us as well as how we think about ourselves.”
Clothing, like other aspects of human physical appearance has social significance attached to it, such as conveying social messages,
including stating or claiming social status, personal or cultural identification, establishing, maintaining or defying social group norms, appreciating comfort and functionality.
Other signals sent by clothes are Indication of the person’s gender, income, religious affiliation, tradition, marital status and so on. In this respect, the title holders are not
Left out because the clothing worn by this category of people clearly indicates indicate their status in the community.
Because of these dimensions of clothes, the human race is inclined to go for uniform to form an identity and be part of a group.
The costumes of Traditional Title Holders (TTH) serve as a uniform identifying them to belong to a group (royal class) and indicating their social status in the society.
The clothes people chose to wear have some psychological effects on them. Psychologist believed that a man whose costume is to the extreme often tries to hide some colossal differences, prove value, attract attention or sometimes confirm his superiority with the help of some attire (answer.com 2009).
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