Dressing room The dressing room is a feature that appeared in patch 1 . 7 , that allows you to preview how an equip pable item will look when equipped without actually equipping it or even picking it up . 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 : 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 to not 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 .