the Toga Party by Guido Volkers

Here is a first-hand account of the Toga Party's origin by Guido Volkers from Germany. He is the mastermind behind the night.

"Toga-Party

How does one throw a Toga-Party?
You take one cheeky German, one tradition-conscious Egyptian and two crazy Americans and then it can begin. This is how it happened in Campo Italia in the Year 1986.

It was an afternoon like any other at Campo Italia. Then a member of the Camp, I think it was an Egyptian named Tarek, passed me by while wearing a traditional Egyptian garment. It was a gown than went down to the ground, similar to a dress, but for men. He was very striking in this outfit and you could not help but be reminded of a toga. So I asked him “hey, what are you wearing? A toga?“

I really didn’t mean anything bad by this question. Unfortunately I hadn’t noticed that the two Tommys were standing nearby. Before Tarek even had a chance to answer, the two yelled “Yeah! That’s it! We’ll throw a Toga Party!”

I think nothing would have stopped them. They both ripped the sheets off their beds and in no time at all they were wrapped in their home-made togas. Afterwards, they convinced the others to do the same. Those, like me, who had never been to a toga party, where shown how to tie one. They also tried to convince us that people wore nothing at all underneath. J Who knows if the two of them held true to this rule themselves….
In any case, that is how the famous Toga Party at Campo Italia in 1986 came to be, and it was great!"