Dresser

Dressers are usually found in the bedroom and are also known also as a chest of drawers. The word dresser comes from the French word dressoir. It is a piece of furniture with several drawers stacked on top of each other.

A dresser is traditionally used for storing clothing or linen. Items that are usually not kept in the closet can be stored in the dresser, such as socks and underwear. Of course dressers can be used anywhere in the house. They usually are either waist-high or about shoulder-high. They sometimes have bigger drawers at the bottom and smaller ones on top, and a dresser might be made out of two separate furniture pieces.
     Below: The most familiar dresser to most of us is, of course, a simple rectangular affair with a few drawers and little styling. But dressers take on hundreds of different shapes, from tall to short, wide to narrow, antique to futuristic, and with few drawers or with dozens.

A dresser, usually the type with fewer drawers, is also quite handy to put the television on. In the living room or hall the dresser is used as a nice piece of decorative furniture quite often with an equal length mirror placed on top of it.

Dressers can look quite different depending on which country they come from, especially antique ones. Just look at the difference between an antique dresser from London, which would be elegant and more decorative, and an antique dresser from Wales, which would be more sturdy and practical for those days.

The dresser appears in all shapes and sizes, from huge units that have to be disassembled to move them in or out of a house and room, to small bedside units having a small drawer or two; from dressers that have a business use, even with a built-in desk, to dressers that are dainty and decorative only. It's as versatile as the owner needs it to be, and the term dresser covers a wide variety of cabinets with drawers.