Toga party

Toga parties are recorded in the yearbooks for Theta Delta Chi (1952)[3] and the University of Michigan's Acacia fraternity (1953).

[4] Another early toga party took place in 1953, when Pomona College students wore togas and ivy wreaths, and brought their dorm mattresses to freshman Mark Neuman's home on Hillcrest Avenue in nearby Flintridge.

[8] A toga party was depicted in the 1978 film Animal House, which propelled the ritual into a widespread and enduring practice.

Chris Miller, who was one of the writers of Animal House, attended Dartmouth College where the toga party was a popular costume event at major fraternity parties (such as Winter Carnival and Green Key Weekend) during the late 1950s and early 1960s.

A toga party was also briefly described in Tom Wolfe's 1968 story "The Pump House Gang", although somewhat different from the version in the film.