Editing Changing room (section)

==Types==
[[File:Male locker Keangnam.jpg|thumb|right|Changing room sign of swimming-pool at [[Keangnam Hanoi Landmark Tower]], Hanoi, Vietnam]]
[[File:Changeroom symbol on sign close up.jpg|thumb|upright|Changeroom sign]]

Various types of changing rooms exist:

* Changing stalls are small stalls where clothes can be changed in privacy. They are used for any physical activity.
* Locker rooms are usually gender-specific spaces where clothes are changed and stored in [[Locker (cabinet)|locker]]s. They are often used for swimming or other sporting purposes. They are open spaces with no stalls. These rooms include toilets, sinks, and showers.
* Fitting rooms, or dressing rooms, are usually small single-user-cubicles where a person may try on clothes. These are often found at retail stores where one would want to try on clothes before purchasing them.

===Changing stalls===
Changing stalls are small stalls where clothes can be changed in privacy. Clothes are usually stored in [[Locker (cabinet)|locker]]s. There are usually no separate areas for men and women. They are often combined with gender-separated [[communal shower]]s. Most public pools have changing facilities of this kind alongside communal changing-rooms. Some other places also offer these changing stalls such as fitness centers.

===Communal changing rooms===
[[File:Lockers in modern change room.JPG|thumb|left|Lockers and bench in changeroom]]
Locker rooms are thus named because they provide lockers for the storage of one's belongings. Alternatively, they may have a locker room attendant who will keep a person's belongings until one comes to retrieve them. Locker rooms are usually open spaces where people change together, but there are separate areas, or separate locker rooms, for men and women. Sometimes they are used in swimming complexes.

[[Lock (security device)|Locking]] devices used in locker rooms have traditionally been key or coin lockers, or lockers that are secured with a [[combination lock]]. Newer locker rooms may be automated, with robotic machines to store clothes, with such features as a fingerprint scanner to enroll and for later retrieval. Locker rooms in some water parks use a microchip equipped wristband. The same wristband that unlocks the lockers can be used to purchase food and drinks and other items in the water park.

Some communal changing rooms are only supposed to be used by groups of persons, not individuals. In this case, there may be no lockers. Instead, the entire room is locked in order to protect belongings from theft.

Locker rooms are also used in many middle schools and high schools. Most of them include showers for after Physical Education.

At an outdoor sports facility, the changing rooms may be integrated into a [[Pavilion#Free-standing_structures|pavilion]] or clubhouse, with other facilities such as seating or a bar.

===Fitting rooms (stores)===
[[File:Grey Fitting Room Curtains-direct-fabrics.co.uk.jpg|thumb|upright|left|A fitting room in a department store]]

Fitting rooms, or dressing rooms, are rooms where people try on clothes, such as in a department store. The rooms are usually individual rooms in which a person tries on clothes to determine fit before making a purchase. People do not always use the fitting rooms to change, as to change implies to remove one set of clothes and put on another. Sometimes a person chooses to try on clothes over their clothes (such as [[sweater]]s or [[Coat (clothing)|coat]]s), but would still like to do this in private. Thus fitting rooms may be used for changing, or just for fitting without changing.

====Rules and conventions====
[[File:ClothingStoreChangeroomSignDSCF0024.JPG|thumb|right|Changeroom sign in clothing store]]

Retail establishments often post rules such as maximum number of items allowed in changing room, e.g. "no more than 4 items allowed in changing room".

==== History ====
It appears that the first store fitting rooms appeared with the spread of [[department stores]].<ref name="Caro">« ''Essayer en corps. Sociologie des cabines d'essayage'' », Thierry Caro, mémoire de fin d'études à l'[[Institut d'études politiques de Lille]], 2004.</ref> [[Émile Zola]] noted their existence in his novel ''[[Au Bonheur des Dames]]'' (1883), and that they were then forbidden to men.<ref name="Caro"/> Some years later, when [[Henri Gervex]], who painted [[Jeanne Paquin]] in 1906, that was no longer the case.{{clarify|date=April 2014}}<ref name="Caro"/>

In any case, [[Buster Keaton]] worked in one in an American 1928 [[silent film|silent]] comedy ''[[The Cameraman]]''.<ref name="Caro"/> Since then, they have continued to provide comic scenes in films, for example in the  1995 French film ''[[Les Trois Frères]]''.<ref name="Caro"/>

===Dressing rooms (domestic)===
[[File:Ankleidezimmer.jpg|thumb|Domestic dressing room]]
Some homes may have dedicated rooms solely for the purpose of dressing and changing clothes, typically with fitted wardrobes. In larger Victorian houses it was common to have a private room called a ''[[boudoir]]'' for the lady of the house that is accessible from the bedroom, and also a dressing room for the gentleman<ref>Yorke, Trevor (2005) ''The Victorian House Explained''. Newbury: Countryside Books {{ISBN|9781846748233}}; p. 105</ref> (and sometimes a man's [[cabinet (room)|cabinet]]).