I think the title pretty well says it all. When you’re clothes shopping, do you hang up the items you’re not going to take after trying them on (assuming they were hung in the first place)? Leave them folded on the chair/bench? Toss them at your feet in a big heap? Something else?
I guess this is a poll of sorts. Once a few people answer I’ll give my answers and reason for asking the question. So I guess if you could include your age, hang/fold/drop status, and where you think you learned your hang/fold/drop preference from, that would be great.
Edited to add: Boy dopers, you can answer too, if you shop for clothing and actually try it on in any appreciable way.
Most places I’ve seen require you to account for the clothes you take in. I usually rehang them and give them to the person with the little number tag thingies.
It it was on a hanger, it goes back onto the hanger (properly buttoned or fastened). If it was folded, it gets refolded. And when I leave the changing room, I hand everything back to the attendant.
No attendant? So I’m assuming this is not exactly Neiman Marcus we’re talking about here.
If there is no attendant there, and no obvious place to put the clothes after you’ve tried them on (like a rack or something), I take the clothes back to where they were originally were, in their original state. I dunno where I learned it . . . I just assumed that that’s what you’re supposed to do, somewhere along the way.
I rehang/fold clothes and give them back to the attendant or leave them in the obvious corralling place for clothes tried on (if the attendant is not there). Sometimes, in a smallish store or if I am near the area I got the clothes, I will even return them to where I found them.
I initially learned it from my Grandmother’s and Mom and have always kept up the practice (especially after working at Sears and dealing with the changerooms there…).
I’ll hang everything back up but if it’s got really complicated fastenings or a millions buttons, I may not completely refasten everything. If there’s someone around, I’ll hand my stuff to them but if they’re not available, I have no compunctions about leaving my stuff in the dressing room. I generally won’t hang it on the return items rack because I want the sales people to be able to account for all the items.
And I’m forty, I guess my mom always rehung stuff plus it just seems polite, no sense in creating extra work for the sales girls.
If there’s an attendant, I give everything back to them, hung up, folded properly, etc.
If there’s no attendant, I look for a rack - generally there’s one right outside the changing area and hang up what I don’t want there.
No attendant and no rack? I put the stuff back where I got it from.
Age: 41
Status: Hang or fold. And put it where it belongs.
Why: Cause that’s what my mom taught me to do. (Seriously. I can’t think of a better answer than this.)
If I’m feeling nice (i.e. I remember what working scut jobs felt like) I’ll fold/ hang/ button/ whatever them back onto the hanger. Then take them back out onto the floor, find the correct rack, and place the item in size order on the rack.
If I’m feeling not-so-nice, I’ll sling it back on the hanger anyoldhow, and put it on the changing room rack for pick up.
I would not replace them in the original display. I would rehang them (but not necessarily refasten them completely) and put them on the rack/in the holding pens at the entrance to the dressing room.
38, female. I didn’t learn it anywhere, but it seems reasonable and respectful of it not belonging to me.
Thanks for fighting sexism and adding us boy Dopers. We, too, must try on clothing. I do have my pants size memorised, though, so if I find a pair that fits, I can go back later and just grab another pair of the same type.
Most places I’ve seen with changerooms require you to bring the clothes back to the changeroom entrance and give them to the attendant. The Mark’s Work Warehouse had no attendant; I just brought the clothes back to a salesperson on the floor.
I fold pants but do not generally put things back on hangars. I never heard of leaving things in the changerooms… do people do this?
If they started on hangers, I put them back on hangers and leave them on the rack by the dressing rooms. If there’s no rack I’d probably find a salesperson, or maybe leave them hanging from the dressing room door. Not on hangers and no attendant or salesperson in sight, I guess I’d sling them over the door, because that’s nicer than leaving them in a heap.
Why do I do it this way? I don’t know… I figure they’re not my clothes, the store will want to sell them and someone else will want to try them on, so why would I toss stuff on the floor? I never bring things back out to the original rack, but I’m not sure if it’s because I feel i shouldn’t or just because I can’t remember where I found what.
I hang them up on hangers and leave them in the room if that is the stores protocol, and if it didnt require a hanger it is left on the bench or I bring it out to the attendent and leave it on the rack inside the change room. But I wouldnt put it back out on the floor because I don’t want to mess up their displays. I have 3 sisters and I guess it was something our family always did. We are avid clothes shoppers. Age 33.
I wouldn’t put them back on the rack, because I’m probably not skilled enough to get it just right, the way it’s supposed to be. I put things back on hangers or re-fold them, and either put them on the changing-room rack or leave them in the cubicle if there’s no rack available. I figure it’s better for me to leave them in the cubicle than try to hang them up myself and get it wrong. (I bet that’s the librarian in me; we never want you to try to put books back on the shelf yourself and would rather pick up piles of books left on tables.)
I’m 33, and I suppose my mother taught me, but it seems to me that you would have to have been raised by wolves to leave clothes on the floor.
Changing-room attendants seem to have disappeared from our city; stores that used to have them don’t anymore. Granted, I’m not exactly shopping at Macy’s. We don’t have Macy’s anyway.
I’m 40. I either hang them up or fold them (depending on how I found them) and then give them back to the attended or hang them up on the rack at the changing room entrance. I don’t remember anyone teaching me (though maybe I watched my mother do it).
I always rehang/refold everything. If there’s no attendant and no specific place to hang clothes I’m not purchasing, I’ll leave the clothes in the dressing room. I always hand them to the attendant on my way out if such a person is present. I think it would be terribly rude to leave everything in a big pile on the floor. Not only does it create extra work for people, it means possibly soiled/ruined clothes that I haven’t paid for that the store will have to try to sell to someone else. I’m 29.
