Why are fitting rooms so evil?

[zoidberg]

No matter how good I feel about myself when I walk into the store, the fitting room mirror flattens any and all self esteem within .00001 seconds.

And it did not help that I tried on a dress that made me look like Baby Jane Hudson: the later years.

I need a private tailor to just make clothes for me so I never have to set foot in a store again.

[Deleted]

Online shopping!

[zoidberg]

I get so tired of returning stuff, though. I wish it wasn't such a pain, I would do it more.

[MrsAxilla]

I hear you! The lighting is always so bad, all I can see are gray hairs and faded color, pimples and scars and sallow skin. Hate it!

[Deleted]

I agree it's a bit of a pain, but I am lazy when it comes to in person clothes shopping. I prefer returns over the experience of in person shopping. The driving there, the getting out, the going in, the searching around, the try on, the waiting to check out and then driving home. Not for me.

I just want to see all the shirts they have lined up and all the pants all lined up.  

[ElizabethBennet]

This is why I online shop and stick mainly to stores where I know my size. I hate fitting rooms.

[Deleted]

I love fitting rooms.

If something looks good on me in a fitting room, then I can be assured it actually looks good on me.

I don't want a fitting room mirror to lie to me.

[zoidberg]

But nothing ever looks good on me in the fitting room.

I don't want the fitting room to lie to me, I just don't want it to completely demoralize me.

[janiejones]

Jul 28, 2013 21:39:58 GMT -5 @misoangry said:

If something looks good on me in a fitting room, then I can be assured it actually looks good on me.

I like this logic.  But I [still] don't love fitting rooms because they reveal some harsh truths.

[Deleted]

You're stronger than the fitting room, zoidberg.

Believe this.

You are likely too hard on yourself, and that's not the fault of the fitting room.

[W.T.Faulkner]

Jul 28, 2013 21:39:58 GMT -5 @misoangry said:

I love fitting rooms.

If something looks good on me in a fitting room, then I can be assured it actually looks good on me.

I don't want a fitting room mirror to lie to me.

The fitting room is the last brutally honest place in America for me, lol.

[zoidberg]

This is why I have like 5 outfits.

[W.T.Faulkner]

Jul 28, 2013 21:45:53 GMT -5 zoidberg said:

This is why I have like 5 outfits.

I hear you.

I am sure, however, that you look much better than you *think* you look.

[mmmomof2]

Anthropologie has the best lighting in their fitting rooms. I always want to buy everything I try on there.

[Gato]

I hate fitting rooms so much I was afraid to even enter this thread.

[sonrisa]

I think of it as a money saving device.

[zoidberg]

Jul 28, 2013 22:07:56 GMT -5 farmvillelover said:

Target rooms are the worst

No way, TJ Maxx is the worst. Worst ever. Target me is a super model compared to TJ Maxx me.

[agnes]

I always have to opposite problem. I try something on in the fitting room and I think I look fabulous. Then, I get home and I'm like WTF did I just buy?

[pugz]

I almost melted in a target fitting room today. It was like a tanning bed in there

[justkeepswimming]

They are also about a trillion degrees, so you come out looking like you fell asleep in a sauna.

[flex]

I read that retailers deliberately set their fitting rooms with crappy mirrors and lighting so you'll come out of the room to look in the mirror out on the floor and the sales clerk can talk you into buying the clothing.

This made me feel a lot better because I feel like I look like shit in Nordstrom fitting rooms--even when I was young.

[Chelle]

Amen sister. Fitting rooms make me want to cry every time. It never fails.

[blueshirt2003]

The mirrors at salons make me look like I have zero make up on and always hurts my self esteem. Thank goodness I wear glasses and therefor can't see myself in the mirror the entire time.

I think fitting room mirrors and salon mirrors are equal in knocking us all down a few notches.

[Chelle]

Oh the salon mirrors totally do it too. You go from looking smoking hot to looking half like a corpse in the time it takes to sit in the chair.

[montereybride]

Jul 28, 2013 22:06:14 GMT -5 nicbreeful said:

It's because stores have to make a lot of them.. So they use the cheapest lighting, the cheapest (and least flattering) carpet and wall paint and the cheapest mirrors. Cheaper mirrors tend to have thinner and more durable glass which actually gives a less flattering reflection. The thicker the glass, the more flattering (and accurate) the reflection.

I am giving you such a look right now.

Shut the fuck up with your goddamn logic, woman!

[snickers]

Ugh nothing ruins my mood likes having to go into a fitting room!

[penelope]

I totally agree with salon mirrors being just as bad as fitting rooms. I have come close to tears trying on jeans in a dressing room.

And what could possibly make you feel better about yourself than having your roots done and foils sticking out in all directions, and then you look at yourself in that light and in those mirrors at the salon...that's a real picker-upper!

[alare]

Jul 29, 2013 7:26:07 GMT -5 @jehc said:

Are you all crazy? I feel like I get into a fitting room and I'm all "DAMN GURL. WHAT'S YO NUMBER?"

And then I get home and want to burn all the things I bought because they look like shit in my mirrors at home.

That's what happens to me! I feel so good about myself in the room. At home it seems like the cashier pulled a switcheroo. Love fitting room mirrors.

[mssallyfield]

I'm a weird shopper (I think).  I visit the online site, look at everything interesting to me, see it on the model to decide if it would look okay on me, THEN I go to the store and try it on from there.  It seems to cut out a lot of the "But it looked so cute on the hanger!" moments that make the fitting rooms so much worse.

The other thing I do is try not to stand directly under the light source. Which sometimes means I'm in the corner of the fitting room, but it works.

[BaliHai]

Jul 29, 2013 7:26:07 GMT -5 @jehc said:

Are you all crazy? I feel like I get into a fitting room and I'm all "DAMN GURL. WHAT'S YO NUMBER?"

And then I get home and want to burn all the things I bought because they look like shit in my mirrors at home.

This is what happens to me, too, with the sole exception of Target. I agree with whoever said Target fitting rooms are the absolute worst.