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I'm staying at a rather nice hotel and the enormous shower has a diagonal bar (pictured below) in one corner, about one foot in length and mounted about a foot off the floor.

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What is the purpose of this? It's not at a useful height for balancing yourself, it's too small for sitting, and way too low for eg hanging wet clothes.

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    Only vaguely related, but still pretty funny: I recently heard a bidet referred to as a “footbath”
    – Old Uncle Ho
    Commented Oct 21 at 20:08
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    For metric-only readers, "about one foot" is "about 30 cm." More precisely, one foot is 30.48 cm.
    – phoog
    Commented Oct 22 at 10:15

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It's about a foot! A footrest for shaving your legs, or drying them.

You can get them at B & Q and other places, such as Kitchens and Bathrooms UK which has this picture

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    It's unfortunate that they don't have a thirty-and-twelve-twenty-fifths-centimeterrest for the metric people.
    – phoog
    Commented Oct 22 at 10:18
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    @phoog this one is 350mm if you have slightly larger feet :)
    – Weather Vane
    Commented Oct 22 at 10:22

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