Fitting Room etiquette

[mommytotwo]

It's not just you. I hate seeing a messy fitting room.

 

[scoutsmom99]

I used to work in the children's dept at a major department store and I hated back to school time. We would have piles of clothes 4 feet tall on our back counter to be put away at night. Girls would put a pair of jeans on take them off leave them on the floor and go on to the next pair.

 

[Michie]

One thing I have noticed more and more lately is men accompanying their wives/SO to the dressing rooms.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

I'm afraid that too many parents don't teach this to their children and then expect it out of them. When my kids are teeny and first start trying on clothes, I hang their things up for them, then when they are a little older, I have them hand the things to me over the dressing room door and then I hang the clothes up for them. When they are older I expect that they hang the items up and at the very least return the items to the rack or shelf that is provided for a customer to return items to.

My 17yo DD recently tried on prom dresses and was going to put the two dresses she wasn't buying back on the rack, but the lady took them from her. I think the worker was surprised that a teen was actually going to hang them back on the rack and I was happy that my DD does not have an attitude that she is better than anyone else.

For me, it will depend. I'll never leave items in the dressing room. I will sometimes return them to the store rack, other times to the rack outside the dressing rooms. I'll always rehang things. It's rude not to.

T&B

 

[eeyore kelly]

I'll always rehang things. It's rude not to.

Please come shop at my store. Maybe you'll rub off on the other customers.

 

[HappyMommy2]

I too hate it when people leave clothes in the fitting rooms!

It can be even worse than that, though.
I went into a Montgomery Ward in a pretty nice mall in San Diego several years ago and was disgusted with the fitting room. There were clothes everywhere, sharp pins all over the floor, food wrappers on the bench (can you imagine eating in a fitting room, ewww), etc. And there was a sign on the entrance to the fitting room that read, "PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE DIRTY DIAPERS IN THE FITTING ROOMS."
So you know they'd had a problem with that too! So gross. How hard would it be for people to just go into the fitting room, try the clothes on, re-hang them, and leave?

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Please come shop at my store. Maybe you'll rub off on the other customers.

And I'm the type that if I see someone doing something rude I'll comment (LOUDLY) to whoever I'm with, "Can you believe it, that person just left all their clothes in a heap on the dressing room floor! What, they think they're better than the people who work here?" LOL Sometime I'm going to say something to the wrong person.

T&B

 

[scoutsmom99]

And there was a sign on the entrance to the fitting room that read, "PLEASE DO NOT LEAVE DIRTY DIAPERS IN THE FITTING ROOMS." So you know they'd had a problem with that too! So gross.

I was gonna post about that in my orginal post, but had decided not to. I can think of a few times where some parents took it upon themselves to use one of the handicap accesible dressing rooms with the longer benches as a changing table for thier child. Then they would put the diaper either under the bench or on the corner shelf thing (with the pin cushion) ick that is so disgusting! Not to mention that the bathrooms were in the dept right next to us (maybe 50 ft away!).

I worked with a lady at the time who would always say that the people who left the fitting rooms littered with clothes on the floor (i.e. un-hung, inside out, etc (she had no problem with people who hung clothes up and put them on the hooks in dressing rooms or left shirts folded)) must be the same people who left pop-corn bags on the floor at movie theaters, left thier wrappers on the ground at ball games, spit gum out on the streets, etc.

 

[pearlieq]

I will rehang/refold my clothes and return them to the rack provided at the front of the dressing room or leave them hanging in the dressing room if they're open to the store and there is no rack, but I do draw the line at wandering about the store replacing the clothes I've tried on.

The way I figure it, if they're charging me $34.99 for a shirt, some of that price must be a service charge. I wouldn't dream of leaving clothes in a messy heap on the floor of the dressing room, but I wouldn't go so far as to return them to their original racks. That's what the store employees are paid to do. It's nice if you want to help them out and put them back, but I don't think that should be an expectation.

 

[snoopy]

I was at the mall today, I had to wait in line for a fitting room. The woman that came out after me left the fitting room a complete disaster...I was tempted to yell out after her. Of course I was too embarrased to walk out myself with all HER crap laying there so I hung it up for her.

People who are slobs in the fitting room probably leave their homes a pig stye as well. I'm just amazed at people who expect someone else to do their dirty work...........

 

[snoopy]

One thing I have noticed more and more lately is men accompanying their wives/SO to the dressing rooms.

Also saw this today! Some woman left her husband out there and their toddler, who was running all over the place inside the fitting room and the father was standing outside sticking his head in and hollering at the kid. It was ridiculous. People need to get a grip, this is poor manners at its worst. Wild toddlers don't belong in women's fitting rooms, let alone their fathers.

 

[RitaZ.]

This happened to my neighbor at a Ross store years ago... The fitting room had to be closed because someone defecated in one of the stalls.

 

[Kteacher]

Unfortunately now that it is bathing suit season people are taking the little strips the manufacturers put in the bathing suit bottoms and sticking them on the walls of the fitting rooms- this makes absolutely no sense to me at all Rita Z.- that is so gross!!!

 

[ballroombelle]

One thing I have noticed more and more lately is men accompanying their wives/SO to the dressing rooms.

Lol! On the flip side, I was just at a boutique with co-ed fitting rooms and there was a woman in there making a very large ruckus about WHY men were being allowed to "traipse in and out of there?!!!" (the store isn'tso small so she may have thought there was a separate men's changing room somewhere)

And we were at a very busy Saks last wknd-someone had their little dog on a leash and people were busily hopping out of the way. (not a working dog) Poor little thing.

RITA Z --

 

[summerrluvv]

In the UK we are given a disc stating how many items we are taking to the changing rooms, you can usually only take four items with you and it is then checked when you come out so there is no way you can leave them in the changing rooms.

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm more apt to buy something from a store that has a very high, or unlimited try on amount. I can't stand going to a store where you can take 4 or 5 items in, when I usually have 10 things to try on. The stuff I can't take in just goes back on the rack because who wants to get dressed/undressed twice. Not me! At places like Kohls where you can try on as much as you want, I definately buy more.

 

[IamTink]

I recently switched departments at my p/t job from the jewelry area to the women's clothing area. This is a large national dept. store. There are 2 large racks for people to place the items they do not want at the exit to the fitting room, however I am amazed at how few people use the racks, let alone pick up the clothes they have just tried on. The majority of people using the fitting rooms leave the clothes in a heap on the floor of the fitting room There are chairs inside the fitting rooms, so if someone didn't want to bother with rehanging their items they could simply place them on the chairs, but most people just leave the clothes on the floor in piles- inside out usually. Maybe it's just because I've worked in retail for so long, but I would never do this.

I've been shocked at the way people have left the changing rooms. I bring my clothes back to where I got them if I'm not purchasing. Not only do I put them on the hangers...correctly, I button or zipper them & hang them the way the store had them when I retrieved them. It's common curtesy & manners. People leave the changing rooms the way they would never want someone to see their home.

 

[nativetxn]

So, I've been doing this wrong? I hang the clothes I don't want back on the hangers and hand them to the clerk when I exit the fitting room. I would never leave them on the floor. That's outrageous!

Katholyn

 

[IamTink]

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm more apt to buy something from a store that has a very high, or unlimited try on amount. I can't stand going to a store where you can take 4 or 5 items in, when I usually have 10 things to try on. The stuff I can't take in just goes back on the rack because who wants to get dressed/undressed twice. Not me! At places like Kohls where you can try on as much as you want, I definately buy more.

I also buy more when I'm allowed to bring more items in. The ones I can't bring in also go back on the rack as I only want to undress once also.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

So, I've been doing this wrong? I hang the clothes I don't want back on the hangers and hand them to the clerk when I exit the fitting room. I would never leave them on the floor. That's outrageous!

Katholyn

If I'm walking by where they would go, I will put them back on the rack. If I'm not or if I have assorted things from various places I will put them on the rack outside the dressing room or give them to the clerk. No, you're not doing anything wrong!

T&B