Do you clean up after yourself when you try on clothes? Be honest!

[Aurora63]

I have returned to the world of retail for the summer, more specifically, I work in the women's clothing department.

Anyway, cutting to the chase...some customers are so messy! They will take clothes that are on hangers into the fitting rooms, only to emerges some time later empty handed. When I go in to check the rooms, I am greeted with a few possible scenarios:

1. Customer has left the clothing hanging on the convenient bar we leave for clothes they didn't want.

2. Customer has left clothes in the fitting room, hanging on the hooks. Again,

3. Even though no one heard anything and no one was hurt, a bomb went off that affected only the clothing. They are now scattered everywhere, off the hangers, lying in heaps on the floor. Some have even lost their tags! It's chaos, utter chaos.

I understand that some stores don't have a place to put things you tried on, but why not at least put them back on the hangers? You would not believe how many don't even do this. They had the strength to get it off the hanger, but putting it back on is another story.

I find it very rude. Which makes me really appreciate everyone who does make an effort to keep things neat. to you.

I guess this is mostly a vent, but where do you fall, on a normal shopping day - when you have few distractions - no kids interrupting, no major time constraints, etc.

ETA - Ignore the poll!! Didn't quite work out the way I wanted.

 

[MushyMushy]

I always put them somewhere neatly. If I have no idea what to do with them, I'll put them on hangers, then hang them on the hooks on the door.

 

[luvmydogs]

I worked at The GAP in the summers during college, so keeping the dressing room clean is a must for me--I know what it's like to have to clean up the big mess that's left by someone else.

 

[Pooh Girl 71]

I put them on the hangers and take them back where I got them from.

 

[ZachnElli]

I spent a few years working retail in clothing stores, I always clean it up completely.

 

[momrek06]

I live in South Central Ma where for the longest time the ONLY store for decent clothes shopping was Filenes..which is becoming Macy's very soon. That store always seems to be such a neat/organized store and that being said....you kinda just follow sort of an unwritten code where you leave the dressing room exactly as you found it and I have always found this store and their dressing rooms very neat. For the most part, I always feel it is a pain to try clothes on, I would rather take them home, try them on and bring them back...then to just do the easy and simple thing as to try them on PRIOR to buying!! I call this lazy...yup, I am too lazy to get all undressed and redressed...hence I wait until evening/bedtime and try on my new clothes at night in my room with my mirror where I can walk around and get a feel for what I have purchased................

I KNOW THIS WAS LONG...........ugh

OH, BTW: I keep the dressing room neat at all times!

 

[Grumpy's Wife]

I always take the clothes out of the fitting room with me. If there isn't an attendant collecting the things I do not want I put them back where I got them.

 

[Disney Ella]

I usually put them back or give them to the attendant if there is one. I would never just leave unwanted clothes in the dressing room.

 

[tiggersmom2]

I put them on the hangers and take them back where I got them from.

Me too

 

[PrincessKitty1]

I always put everything back on hangers (except bras, because I can never quite get the hang of how stores clip them on to the specialized hangers ).

Most stores in my town don't have a bar to hang up rejected clothes, so I hang the hangers on the hooks in the dressing rooms. If I just have one or two things I will sometimes return them to the racks, but usually not (can't always find the right place to re-hang stuff).

 

[FroggyinArk]

i havent tryed on clothes in years,,

 

[monarchsfan16]

I started working at a major department store in the dress/swimwear department a couple weeks ago. We've had monster sales in the last two weeks so it's been a bit of a nightmare. In a matter of two minutes the dressing room can go from cleared out and as good as it gets (our dressing rooms are in need of reglued carpet, deep cleaning, etc) to looking like a bomb went off. In addition to all the scenarios you listed above, people seem to have decided that those sticky linings in the crotch of swimsuits make for good wallpaper. They are all over the mirrors, doors, and walls. People rarely put stuff on hangers, leaving everything (including wicked expensive dress suits) inside out, in heaps on the floor. And because we're so busy, there is no time between customers to go in and clean out the stalls, so we end up with litterally a hundred bathing suit parts and a couple dozen dresses and suits all over the floor by the time we finally can clean.

Even before I started working there I always put everything back on hangers, and at the very least hung them on the rack provided. 98% of the time I hung stuff back where I found it. Generally the times I didn't was in those staffed dressing rooms (Gap, Old Navy, etc) where they take the clothes you're not taking from you. I'm appalled at what people do to dressing rooms

 

[MAKmom]

I always hang what I try on back up. If I need another size I will return what I tried on.

 

[lucas]

I never leave things in the dressing room - ever.

That is, things that I brought in. I hate it when I go into a room and there is stuff hanging all over. But, I would never take out what others have left.

 

[WatchinCaptKangaroo]

Have you been reading my mind this week?

I've been on a shopping spree (need new work clothes) this week and come across countless dressing rooms that are absolute pig stys.

I always bring my clothes out, on the hangers I brought them in on. I'll make an attempt at folding clothing that was folded and I will leave it with the attendant or on a rack unless I have to go back into that section.

I will also take out the clothing the people before me left, although I don't hang up all their stuff too. I will leave it neatly on the rack or with the attendant though.

 

[escape]

99% of the time, I will hang the clothes and take them back where I got them. Occasionally, there are times when I can't remember where I picked up a certain item. I will then ask a sales associate where to take the item and usually, not always though, the SA will offer to take it for me.

I have never left an item in the dressing room. It never even occured for me to do so even though I have walked in rooms with clothes already there.

 

[princess pooh]

I always put the clothes back on the hanger and bring them back to the attendant.

 

[Blondie]

I always put my unwanted clothes back to where I found them. Having worked retail right out of high school, and then again for extra christmas money when my boys were babies, I know what it's like finding dressing rooms full of clothes that need snapping, zippering, buttoning, etc. AND then returned to their rightful rack.

 

[Stacerita]

I always hang them back on the hanger. And I make sure they are zippered, button and what not. If the attendant is there, I will give them to that person, or hang them on the go back rack. But if there is no attendant and no rack, I will leave them hanging in the dressing room.

 

[pearlieq]

I will re-hang it all and leave it hung in the dressing room or on the rack (if provided). I will not return it all to where I got it. That's part of the service I expect when shopping at a retail clothing store.