Editing Changing room (section)

===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"/>