Changing rooms make women angry and irate

SparkyTech

I knew it. Don't blame us fellas for not wanting to go shopping with ye when ya want new shoes....:P

Three-quarters of women suffer from 'changing room rage' when they are shopping, according to a new study

Cramped, cluttered and exposed fitting rooms can make trying on clothes such a traumatic experience that it manifests itself in feelings of anger, disappointment and bouts of bad temper.

The condition - dubbed CRR - can cometimes lead to shoppers snapping at retail assistants, storming out of stores and even losing self-confidence, according to the study of more than 1,200 women for isme.com.

Around 75% of shoppers questioned said they had stopped trying on clothes due to the state of changing rooms and half said they waited to try clothes on at home.

If the shopping experience itself is negative, the whole event can be utterly destructive.
Adult behaviour psychologist Susan Quilliam

When asked about their emotional state after visiting a high street changing room, 58% of women claimed they felt disappointed and 48% said they were left feeling frustrated

Major gripes include curtains which do not shut properly, long queues and a lack of space.

Adult behaviour psychologist Susan Quilliam said: "Beautiful clothes will always make a woman feel more beautiful and therefore more positive about her appearance, more confident in herself and more optimistic in general.

"But if the shopping experience itself is negative, the whole event can be utterly destructive.

"Instead of boosting our self-esteem, it saps it; instead of making us feel good about ourselves and our lives, it brings up frustration, irritation and anger."

epgc3fyqirnbsx

Ha, have to love listening to the girls at work discussing how they don't like the mirrors in some shops dressing rooms because they make them look fat whereas the mirror in such and such a shop is som much better.
One of the girls went as far to say that she would buy clothes in one shop, then go into a dressing room in another shop as it had better mirrors and if she didn't like the look of the clothes she would then go back to the original shop and return them

Love girls

kfallon

What a load of me 'brown' :rolleyes:

liah

There is little on this earth more frustrating than being stuck in a 2x2 cubicle that's far too hot with crap lighting and warped mirrors half naked with a garment that simply will not come off without you either becoming the world's best contortionist or the garment getting destroyed.

I hate changing rooms with a passion and will often just cross my fingers and hope something's my size so I don't have to use them. Hell on earth right there tbh

Buceph

Men have an advanced form of this.

We feel anger walking into the shop let alone the changing rooms.

kfallon

liah wrote: »

There is little on this earth more frustrating than being stuck in a 2x2 cubicle that's far too hot with crap lighting and warped mirrors half naked with a garment that simply will not come off without you either becoming the world's best contortionist or the garment getting destroyed.

I hate changing rooms and will often just cross my fingers and hope something's my size so I don't have to use them. Hell on earth right there tbh

Just destroy the garment, you're not gonna buy it so........

Smartly Dressed

liah wrote: »

There is little on this earth more frustrating than being stuck in a 2x2 cubicle that's far too hot with crap lighting and warped mirrors half naked with a garment that simply will not come off without you either becoming the world's best contortionist or the garment getting destroyed.

I hate changing rooms with a passion and will often just cross my fingers and hope something's my size so I don't have to use them. Hell on earth right there tbh

Not to mention the all too common changing rooms which barely ****ing provide privacy.

liah

kfallon wrote: »

Just destroy the garment, you're not gonna buy it so........

I'd love to pull a Hulk on it, except most shops have this pesky "if you break it, you buy it" policy that tends to put a bit of a damper on things.

talla10

Sick of women who are size 10 say. They've alway been size 10 and there are size 10 clothes.

Then they pick a particular item, that is available in 10, and try it on in size 8!!!

Obviously it doesnt fit then all i hear for next hour is am i fat?????

No Your just size 10!!!!!!!Same as last week, last month, last year!!:mad::mad:

Size 10 dammit!!!

kfallon

liah wrote: »

I'd love to pull a Hulk on it, except most shops have this pesky "if you break it, you buy it" policy that tends to put a bit of a damper on things.

Just hang it back up and get the hell outta there!

Cypher_sounds

Quick solution, if you see something in a shop you like then just buy the damn thing in your size no messing about, go home try it on and do whatever you have to do, bring it back if your not happy with it or else just give it to a charity shop, simple no hassle and one less thing to moan about.

SparkyTech

I fully sympathize with the retail workers who have to man changing rooms (esp in my local pennys!)

Dwellingdweller

Sounds despairingly similar to video game rage

phill106

Smartly Dressed wrote: »

Not to mention the all too common changing rooms which barely ****ing provide privacy.

Hey, that is the only good bit for the men!

Aoifey!

I hate the ones with half doors, the curtain ones aren't too bad.

alexa5x5

I few years ago I was trying on a pair of jeans that where, as I discovered, a bit tight. I struggled for for a few minutes, had them just about off when I stumbled backwards a$$ first out of the cubical and landed smack down in front of a people waiting to go in.... That taught me never to wear granny pants shopping again!

stupidusername

Hate the ones with curtains that dont go to the edge.am whats the point in it being there if there's a great big gap at each side. And then there's people that for no other reason than complete stupidity swing the curtain right open to check if it's empty. Grow a ****ing brain you twat,why would it be closed if there was no one in there!!! yes definitely takes patience to go try stuff on.i avoid it if possible.

Larianne

Shopping makes me angry full stop. I bloody hate it.

If I go shopping it has to be earlier in the morning. I have an idea what I want and what shop will have what I'm looking for. I also wear clothes that are easy to take off and put back on again to shorten the time I'm in the shop.

I do not understand people who like making a 'day' out of shopping.

I also have to shop on my own. Saves time and stops me from buying things I don't want. I think I'd lose friendships if I went shopping with any of my friends.

Hulk Hands

liah wrote: »

I'd love to pull a Hulk on it, except most shops have this pesky "if you break it, you buy it" policy that tends to put a bit of a damper on things.

I'm quite calm and collected when trying on clothes ill have you know

polly78

Main thing bothers me is the time consuming aspect, I have often had to try on clothes in a changing "room" not a cubicle in sight. But revert to the "we're all girls", get a quick gist of how it feels, not too much mirror action as the lights are always appalling and get out of there thinking "hold on to that receipt"

Get the thing about certain shops having good mirrors, same with bars and clubs!

hondasam

Addisyn Dazzling Room wrote: »

Ha, have to love listening to the girls at work discussing how they don't like the mirrors in some shops dressing rooms because they make them look fat whereas the mirror in such and such a shop is som much better.
One of the girls went as far to say that she would buy clothes in one shop, then go into a dressing room in another shop as it had better mirrors and if she didn't like the look of the clothes she would then go back to the original shop and return them

Love girls

I laughed reading this, only us girls could think like this. :pac:

we wonder why men Don't understand us.

EverEvolving

Same as Larianne, I hate shopping, most of my clothes are stolen borrowed from my clothes obsessed sister who, luckily is pretty much the same size as me! I've kinda figured out the shops where clothes tend to always fit my shape so I just nip in, quick grab of what I think looks nice, try on and the first thing that fits properly gets bought. Unless it's Pennies, I just grab and buy and get out of there.

problemchimp

Aoifey! wrote: »

I hate the ones with half doors, the curtain ones aren't too bad.

I love the half door ones, I can sometimes get a sneaky look at a side of tit!
But me Ma goes mad when I look.

hondasam

talla10 wrote: »

Sick of women who are size 10 say. They've alway been size 10 and there are size 10 clothes.

Then they pick a particular item, that is available in 10, and try it on in size 8!!!

Obviously it doesnt fit then all i hear for next hour is am i fat?????

No Your just size 10!!!!!!!Same as last week, last month, last year!!:mad::mad:

Size 10 dammit!!!

you will not like me I'm a size 8

I hate changing rooms, buy the clothes and return them If I have to.

EverEvolving

talla10 wrote: »

Sick of women who are size 10 say. They've alway been size 10 and there are size 10 clothes.

Then they pick a particular item, that is available in 10, and try it on in size 8!!!

Obviously it doesnt fit then all i hear for next hour is am i fat?????

No Your just size 10!!!!!!!Same as last week, last month, last year!!:mad::mad:

Size 10 dammit!!!

Find me two shops that have the same size 10's and I will give you a medal.

Most shops have different variants of sizes.

I am usually a size 10 but the last few times I tried on clothes it went from size 8 to size 12 with the differences, I will admit though, I was happier with the size 8 fitting than the size 12

Kevin Duffy

Listen, the changing rooms might be small and cramped, but there's plenty of space out on the shopfloor. Why don't all the women just change into their new clothes out there?

Just in case I'm wrong about this idea, maybe we could trial it in selected stores. Let's say we start with, oh, say, doing it La Senza, just to see how it goes. How does that sound?

orourkeda

They should change in public so we can leer at their fannies and tits

hondasam

orourkeda wrote: »

They should change in public so we can leer at their fannies and tits

you see how subtle kevin duffy was

you can do better.

orourkeda

hondasam wrote: »

you see how subtle kevin duffy was

you can do better.

To hell with subtlety.

Knockers

Pwindedd

I too have developed a coping strategy.

large bag(for cardigan, scarf, other purchases), one piece dress with black tights and slip on shoes. Don't wear a coat it'll just annoy the hell out of you and make you feel hot. If I walk in the changing room and it's too hot I walk straight out again and hand the clothes to the assistant and tell her why I'm not bothering, it might encourage them to change their ways.

Things that would make a changing room user friendly

• Good lighting
• Cool in tempeature
• little stool to rest on/put your handbag on
• plenty of hooks
• big mirror tilted back ever so slightly at the top - it makes you look slimmer
• call button for assistant
• and to make it absolutely perfect a polaroid camera in the mirror activated by a button on the floor to give you a photo for showing friends/mums etc for honest opinions

Gummy Panda

orourkeda wrote: »

They should change in public so we can leer at their fannies and tits

I like your straight to the point ideas. I too would like to leer at their fannies

Kevin Duffy

Pwindedd wrote: »

• and to make it absolutely perfect a polaroid camera in the mirror activated by a button on the floor to give you a photo for showing friends/mums etc for honest opinions

Just as I was losing interest in your post, you saved it.

orourkeda

Gummy Panda wrote: »

I like your straight to the point ideas. I too would like to leer at their fannies

Let's not beat around the bush.


Maybe we should on second thoughts