CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) — As more of Chicago reopens to more people, there is some confusion about what to do with what's really an essential part of clothing stores.
This is especially true when it comes to dressing rooms or fitting rooms.
Some are open, some are closed and the guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the city of Chicago and the state of Illinois is open to interpretation. Sanitizing distance and masks are recommended.
Target is not allowing customers to use dressing rooms. Old Navy is and so is a boutique clothing store in the West Town neighborhood.
"We kind of just keep it, well, like one person at a time in the fitting room," Squasht Boutique owner Lesley Timpe told CBS 2. "We felt that our fitting room had enough space and it's open air and it seemed like not terribly risky to keep it open."
Dr. Allison Bartlett, who studies pediatric infectious diseases at the University of Chicago, said what's known about the airborne spread, keeping people separated and masked makes the threat low in dressing rooms.
"Transmission on cloth and surfaces for COVID is really not a main driver of what's going on," Bartlett said.
