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The article discusses recreating and investigating dress and dress effects for a performance of extracts from speeches by Roman orator Marcus Tullius Cicero planned by John Hall of the University of Otago and Robin Bond of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand in 2001. The recreation of the experience of wearing the toga connotes a recreation of a part of the physical environment of the performer. It explains that togas were the appropriate attire for a Roman adult male citizen.