The term dressing room may be applied to different places.
In architectural parlance, and in the larger houses, a dressing room is a small room next to a bedroom, used by the occupants to give privacy during dressing and undressing.
In a theatre and a concert halldressing rooms are provided for the performers to assume their costumes and makeup. The star dressing room is used by the principal actor and/or actress.
A dressing room (also called a fitting room, particularly in Britain) in a clothingstore is a small enclosure with mirrors where one can try on clothing privately. The purpose of a dressing room is for patrons to ensure that articles of clothing fit properly, and look good on them before committing to a purchase.
Generally dressing rooms have security measures to prevent patrons from stealing clothes by wearing them out of the store. The most common method is to have each patron register the number of clothes that he or she is trying on with a clerk outside of the dressing room. That clerk will then check to ensure that the number of clothes being taken out matches the number taken in.
Most dressing room clerks also offer to take and queue for restocking any clothing which the patron does not wish to purchase after trying it on.
Outside the dressing room, there are often chairs for spouses to wait. There are typically mirrors outside as well for joint decisions.
For media works titled Changing Rooms, see Changing Rooms.
In architectural parlance, and in the larger houses, a dressingroom is a small room next to a bedroom, used by the occupants to give privacy during dressing and undressing.
In a theatre and a concert hall, dressingrooms are provided for the performers to assume their costumes and makeup.
The "star dressingroom" is used by the principal actor and/or actress.
If this dress should decidedly pertain only to the breakfast-hour, and be specially suited for such domestic occupations as usually follow that meal, then it would be well to exchange it before the time for receiving visitors, if the mistress be in the habit of doing so.
room does not adjoin the bath-room, the tub, of which we shall speak farther on, should be brought each day into the dressing-room for the daily sponge bath, which replaces the larger bath one may have to go and take elsewhere, or which may be forbidden on account of health.
If it is necessary to keep your dresses, your band-boxes, your boots and shoes, etc., in your dressing-room, you should have some shelves placed across the end of the room at a sufficient height to allow you to hang your dresses from hooks.
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