Cloakroom

As a cloakroom, a space for storing clothes is called. The importance of this in detectable already in the 16th century in the German word is also used figuratively since the 17th century as the name of the stored clothing.

Private dressing rooms

As a wardrobe room of your apartment or room of a residential building is called today usually where residents and visitors can put clothes or shoes that do not need it in the house. To some extent only the relevant piece of furniture in the hallway, where this tray is called a wardrobe.

The visitors cloakroom is often near the front door. Visitors can, for example, boots, jackets or coats, and may deposit an umbrella. Wardrobes usually have an umbrella stand, a shelf and a mirror. At the bottom there is often a special floor covering which absorbs dirt, so that it is not unnecessarily spread in the apartment.

Locker rooms for the exclusive use of residents of the house are often referred to as a " dressing ".

Public wardrobes

Wardrobes are also found at the entrance to the theaters, clubs, museums and other public buildings. You have visitors coats, umbrellas and luggage exits. You get this a wardrobe brand, which is usually provided with the number of the hook to which the coat was hung. Sometimes just a coat hook with the same number is also available for any area of the theater, so that the theater Billet serves as cloakroom. On presentation of this cloakroom receive visitors before leaving the building their custody pieces back. The profession of " dresser " (ie the person who accepts coats and again returns ) has long been regarded as typically female, but is now run by men. The storage can be offered against payment or free of charge.

The wardrobe is sometimes an important part of the revenue of a theater or organizers. In the 19th century and early 20th century the wardrobe operation was even leased regularly to specific entrepreneurs. Often consists of these commercial reasons, but also for safety and cleanliness reasons forced wardrobe: coats, umbrellas and bags over a certain size may not be taken with in the auditorium of a theater often. In various countries, theater wardrobes are very different pronounced: in England, for example, there is often no manned cloakrooms and only a small unguarded room with hook, can be stored in the coats and umbrellas. Most visitors will take their coats in the auditorium with and stow it under the seat, for example,

Besides operated by people dressing rooms there (often with deposit system ) satisfy locker systems, the wardrobe function in many theaters, museums, libraries, sports facilities and other public buildings.

In kindergartens and in classrooms in schools, however, wardrobes are used that are similar to private dressing rooms and no staff ( dressers ), or manage lockers.