2006-12-09 00:12:22 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Easter
The colours of the festive season relate to the pagan celebration of the Winter Solstice. We celebrate the re-birth of the Sun God from the Goddess as the days start to get longer. Green is for fertility; the red for the sign of a woman's fertility, menstual blood; the white for the sign of a man's fertility, semen. For the same reason we decorate our houses with holly (red berries and green leaves) and mistletoe (white berries and green leaves).
2006-12-09 04:09:24 · answer #1 · answered by pixiefeet@btinternet.com 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
And in England 'Father Christmas' or 'Old Sir Christmas' always wore a green suit - as has been said by others the red suit was an invention of the Coca Cola company in the late 19th century
2006-12-09 00:21:35 · answer #2 · answered by rdenig_male 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
well actually- Santa's suit was a product of Coke! In the first dutch portrayals of Santa he would have a yellow or green suit, but when he was brought to America by immigrants and popularised by "Twas the Night Before Christmas" his suit became the Coke colours.
Weird and unsettling.
2006-12-09 00:15:35 · answer #3 · answered by Rebby H 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
No joke. Fat, jolly Santa -- the guy with the red suit and cap, the thick black belt and sooty boots, the rosy cheeks, the luminous eyes, the brighter-than-white teeth -- is the spawn of an advertising campaign by Coca-Cola back in the 1930s.
2006-12-09 00:25:16 · answer #4 · answered by Quizard 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Santa was invented long after we started celebrating Christmas. If you call the holiday Christmas, you should be looking to Christ and His birth - that's the original point.
Red and green are festive. Most of the winter holidays have to do with beating the winter blahs.
2006-12-09 00:16:59 · answer #5 · answered by luvwinz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The santa we see was an advertising ploy by coca cola.
In the 1920's
Coke has done well from it.
This years advert is rubbish
It's sad nobody knows the true origin of Santa [St Nick]
2006-12-09 05:47:11 · answer #6 · answered by echo 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
St Nicholas suit was green.
For Santa you have to blame Coca Cola for the best marketing & publisity ever done
2006-12-09 10:34:41 · answer #7 · answered by Jules 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because of fact it would look stupid with Santa being crimson and green. The white trim makes him stick out with that little glow to him. besides some human beings have white Christmas wood.
2016-10-14 08:10:35 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Santas red and white gettup was created by coka cola as an advertising ploy.
2006-12-09 00:15:08 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Probably because the mythical 'Santa' wears the colours of his creator Coca Cola
2006-12-09 00:28:13 · answer #10 · answered by joepublic101 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋