Toga Parties in Popular Media
Toga parties were depicted in the 1978 film National Lampoon's 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. First lady Eleanor Roosevelt held a toga party to spoof the followers of the "Caesar," her husband President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
The Animal House toga party scene was not the first mention of a toga party in popular media. 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. Another example of Toga party is shown in the first episode of season four of the TV series Greek.
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