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.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.[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.[5][6] Changing room operators frequently post signs disclaiming responsibility for stolen items, which can discourage but not eliminate claims for negligence.
A block of clothing store fitting rooms in Denmark