Why does Father Christmas/Santa Claus wear red and white?

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Why does Father Christmas/Santa Claus wear red and white?

Answer 1

So that he doesn't get mistaken for a burglar.

Answer 2

I used to think that the red suit had to do something with coca-cola, ubt unfortunetly it hasnt.

This is the story of the red suit :)

http://www.thelifestoryofsantaclaus.com/...

Answer 3

It used to be green and white but I think Walt Disney changed it in one of his films and it stuck. Wrong again.

http://www.blurtit.com/q201356.html

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   Has Santa Claus always worn red and white?

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13 Sep 2006 11:34  Flag      







Most people know what Santa looks like ~ a jolly fellow, with a red suit, white beard and pleasantly plump. But he did not always look that way. The image of Santa Claus ranged from big to small and fat to tall. Santa even appeared as an elf and looked a bit spooky in some old cards.

When the company Coca-Cola started its Christmas advertising in the 1920s, they put ads in magazines like the Saturday Evening Post. The first Santa ads used a strict-looking Claus, but these weren't very popular.

The company use Santa Claus again in their advertising in 1930 and an artist called Fred Mizen painted a department store Santa in a crowd drinking a bottle of Coke in his hand. He changed Santa's usual tan coloured coat and painted it red. The slight changes from spooky looking Santa to jolly, chubby, red-coated Santa seemed to go down a storm, as sales rocketed.

Of course, because Santa is a secretive chap and no one ever gets to actually see him, we may never know exactly what coloured attire he chooses to deliver our presents in, he might, like me, favour Gucci over a red felt coat!

Answer 4

As far as I know, Coca Cola made it a red suit many years ago and it just stuck

Answer 5

just read something this week, origionally based on St Nick who gave presents to the poor, then Coca Cola designed a red suited guy and the image stuck! Interesting hey!

Answer 6

I had heard that Santa used to wear green, then coca cola put a Holiday commercial out and Santa was in a red suit and as the saying goes the rest is history. However, St Nicholas of Myra was first a Catholic Priest and later became a Bishop. As a Bishop his robes were red, white, and gold. Hence the festive colours we have around Christmas today.

The Coca Cola advert had some influence in popularizing the image of the modern Santa, there's no disputing that but Santa's red suit was pretty much commonplace well before then.