Changing room

Changing-rooms are provided in a semi-public situation to enable people to change clothes with varying degrees of privacy.

Separate changing rooms may be provided for men and women, or there may be a non-gender-specific open space with individual cubicles or stalls,[1] as with unisex public toilets.

Most public pools have changing facilities of this kind alongside communal changing-rooms.

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.

The same wristband that unlocks the lockers can be used to purchase food and drinks and other items in the water park.

[2] Émile Zola noted their existence in his novel Au Bonheur des Dames (1883), and that they were then forbidden to men.

[2] Some years later, when Henri Gervex, who painted Jeanne Paquin in 1906, that was no longer the case.

[clarification needed][2] In any case, Buster Keaton worked in one in an American 1928 silent comedy The Cameraman.

[2] Some homes may have dedicated rooms solely for the purpose of dressing and changing clothes, typically with fitted wardrobes.

Sometimes, no method of securing items is provided, but even lockable lockers or baskets are usually designed for only minimal security allowing experienced thieves to steal the valuable items which people typically have with them before changing.

[5][6] Changing room operators frequently post signs disclaiming responsibility for stolen items, which can discourage but not eliminate claims for negligence.