Dressing room

Dressing room since after patch 10.0.0.

Previewing the  [Unbound Star-Eater].

The dressing room allows one to preview how an equippable item will look when equipped without actually equipping it or even picking it up. The dressing room appears by ^ Ctrl+Left clicking on an item from a vendor, an item linked in chat, in the bags, the Auction House, and many other places.

The dressing room also supports previewing mounts, companions, arsenals, and ensembles with the same default keybind on their related item. Previewing an arsenal or ensemble will use the Appearance List interface to display all the transmog that are learned with them.

Get the best of the dressing room

Vendors

Some may argue that you should almost never buy equipment from vendors. While this is usually true for pure stat-boosting items, some vendors sell fashionable clothes, such as colorful shirts. Use the dressing room to help you choose when to take the plunge and buy something you might otherwise have ignored!

Also, remember that you can preview items you are unable to wear. Check in with the Battlegrounds or PvP vendors and see how good you will look after your rank or reputation has increased.

Tip: When you browse a vendor's wares and use the dressing room feature, you can close the vendor window, keep the dressing room window up and check out another vendor's wares. That way you can, for example, see how a certain weapon available at one vendor looks on you with a particular piece of armor available at another. You can even combine this with other methods, such as the chat link.

Chat

Any equipable item link can be previewed with the dressing room. To do so, just Ctrl+Left-Click on an item linked in chat. This technique is very useful to send "preview" links for things you can preview normally only on yourself. You can use it to link:

• Professions items from your professions recipe window.
• Quest items from your quest window.

Quest rewards

When you take a quest, you can now see how the reward will look on you. Ctrl+Left-Click on the icon and the dressing room window will pop up. If you want to show the new item's look to your guild mates or friends, you can Shift+Left-Click on the item's icon to display a link in a chat line, and they can then also see for themselves how it would look on their own characters.

Professions

You can use the preview with any recipe you know, with a Ctrl+Left-Click on the icon of the final product in your professions window. Tips: You can't preview the recipe's end result unless you have learned the recipe. But, you can always ask higher level crafters to /whisper you back with the item link.

If you want to avoid losing money and time when trying to sell crafted equipment, just link the item in chat to a prospective buyer. Keep your components handy to make that item on-demand instead of making one that may not sell.

Group loot

With the possibility of previewing loot in a group or raid when an item drops, never-before-seen fashion arguments might start occurring (e.g.: "But those purple pants will match my dinner set!"). Thus, it is very important to remember that it is always better to loot only after combat has finished and everyone who died has been revived. Otherwise, the time to roll could run out before anyone had a chance to preview and then roll. If you trust everyone in the group or raid, it is better to have the Master Looter option activated. The master looter can then provide everyone with the links.

Bank and inventory

When you organize your bank and your bags, it is not always easy to remember the exact appearance of your equipment. And, to equip everything you own can be a major pain. With the dressing room, just organize the items per bag, and if you want to see how they'd look, Ctrl+Left-Click on all of them. This will also help you not to click on "Binds when equipped" items and equip them only when you don't want to do so.

Auction House

As the example in the opening paragraph illustrates, using the dressing room feature in the auction house will help you make up your mind about which item to bid on. If two items are similar in stats, why not go for the one that will look better on you? Likewise, when you obtain "Binds when equipped" items in the world, the dressing room feature will help you decide whether you want to keep it for yourself or auction it off.

Outfits

Some custom outfits (Love is in the Air, daily use, and a trying out outfit).

Like the transmog interface, the dressing room can be used to create and manage Outfits. However, unlike the transmog interface, the dressing room allows players to save outfits with appearances they have yet to learn, thus completing a visual set now with the goal of collecting the missing pieces.

Backgrounds

Class

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  Death knight
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  Demon hunter
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  Druid
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  Hunter
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  Mage
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  Monk
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  Paladin
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  Priest
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  Rogue
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  Shaman
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  Warlock
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  Warrior

Race

The subject of this section was removed from World of Warcraft in patch 7.3.0 but is present in Classic.

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  Blood elf
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  Draenei
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  Dwarf
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  Gnome
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  Goblin
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  Human
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  Night elf
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  Orc
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  Pandaren
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  Tauren
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  Troll
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  Undead
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  Worgen

Gallery

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  Previewing the items that are taught by the  [Arsenal: Cataclysmic Gladiator's Weapons].
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  Small version of the dressing room, part of the Auction House (prior to the AH revamp in 8.3.0).
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  Linking outfit in chat and copying link to clipboard options
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  Link outfit dropdown
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  Display current items UI (patch 9.1.5)
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  Small UI prior to patch 10.0.0
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  Large UI prior to patch 10.0.0

Patch changes

• Patch 10.2.7 (2024-05-07): When previewing an ensemble or arsenal, the Dressing Room will now show a list of items included in the bundle. Each item can be viewed independently by clicking its name in the list.
  
• Patch 9.1.5 (2021-11-02):
  • New "Appearance List" button and UI that displays the name of each item applied in the dressing room.
  • New "Link Outfit" button, allowing players to share outfits with others in chat or elsewhere.
    
• Patch 8.0.1 (2018-07-17): Right clicking on a mount or pet item will now use the dressing room to preview them.
  
• Patch 7.3.0 (2017-08-29):
  • Window size has been enlarged, with a button in the upper-right corner added to switch between the new size and the classic size.
  • Now displays class specific backgrounds (previously was racial, with exception of death knight and demon hunter).
    
• Patch 7.0.3 (2016-07-19): There is now the possibility to save Outfits to be used later at the Transmogrifier.
  
• Patch 1.7.0 (2005-09-13): Added.
  

External links

• Dressing Room page in the Under Development section of the original Official site.