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Where confidence comes to die under fluorescent lights and three angled mirrors.
means A small private room where you change clothes, either to try on garments before buying or to prepare costumes and appearance before a performance.
from A transparent compound of "dressing" (the act of putting on clothes, from "dress," which came through Old French "dresser" — to arrange, prepare, or set straight — from a Latin root "directus," meaning made straight) plus "room." The clothing sense of "dress" grew from that older notion of putting things in order; you don't just wear clothes, you arrange yourself. The theatrical "dressing room" and the retail fitting-room sense both bloomed from the same simple idea: a space set aside for the business of getting yourself together.
- lighting crime
- Cool fluorescents exaggerate shadows, flattening and aging every body
- theft trap
- Most retail shoplifting happens inside the fitting room
- backwards origin
- Early stars dressed in shared spaces, not private rooms
- mirror trick
- Angled or slimming mirrors can boost sales conversions
- green room
- Performer waiting rooms were once painted calming green
old trafford dressing room — manchester united's famous locker room where sir alex ferguson famously threw a boot at david beckham in 2003