I have a dresser AND a chest. (I would not have known they had different names, except that's what my mother calls them.) They are both furniture with drawers and no doors, so the only real difference is size. The dresser is wider than it is tall (it comes up to about my waist), whereas the chest is taller than it is wide (it comes up to my chest). The dresser, because it's shorter, has a big mirror above it.