Victorian cartoonists showed him in red on a regular basis.
2006-12-09 23:32:00 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
The Santa image may have been standardized before Coca-Cola adopted it for their advertisements, but Coca-Cola had a great deal to do with establishing Santa Claus as a ubiquitous Christmas figure in America at a time when the holiday was still making the transition from a religious observance to a largely secular and highly commercial celebration. In an era before color television (or commercial television of any kind), color films, and the widespread use of color in newspapers, it was Coca-Cola's magazine advertisements, billboards, and point-of-sale store displays that exposed nearly everyone in America to the modern Santa Claus image. Coca-Cola certainly helped make Santa Claus one of the most popular men in America, but they didn't invent him.
2006-12-09 23:37:29 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Santa, St Nick, Father Christmas, etc all started out as *different* characters. Over the past century, they've merged and blended into each other in a variety of ways. The Coca-cola red Father Christmas was a major factor in converting the British Father Christmas to red.
2006-12-10 05:07:46 · answer #2 · answered by Jeremy 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Cocalcola dressed him in their house colour in an advertisement in 1931. He's normally in a more scarlet colour. Santa (the American confection) has always worn a red tracksuit with fur trim. Sinta Klaus (the European St Nicholas) wears a green bishop's mitre and cope. Father Christmas (German and English pagan old man of the forest) wears a coat with a hood either red or green (the colours of holly)
2006-12-09 23:38:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I understand your question. Obviously Sherrie W has not got the brains she was born with....Coca cola did indeed claim to have put Santa in red for one reason and one reason only....probably the best marketing ploy ever....and it worked....we're all talking about it still...... yet again planting the Coke word into our thoughts........hats off to Coca-Cola. P.S, Most of us know(except Sherrie W) that Santa was dressed in red long before Coke came on the scene......
2006-12-10 00:31:51 · answer #4 · answered by tintinthered 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Coka Cola is currently being charge with numerous human rights abuses in third world countries. the Charge include the murder of union organizers in Colombia. There is allot of RED involved with Coka Cola. Ask the widows who's families were killed by the paramilitary thugs coka cola pays in south America.
2006-12-10 03:46:40 · answer #5 · answered by Rich 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You shouls research christmas and cola on the net and you will find the origins of xmas have less to do with religion and moreto do with cols and the marketing of the so called santa claus
very interesting reading.
P>S Happy XMAS
2006-12-09 23:38:36 · answer #6 · answered by C 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Santa original was green but coca-cola changed it to match there label which we all know is red
2006-12-12 23:56:33 · answer #7 · answered by boo 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He was in red long before Coca came along
2006-12-10 03:03:43 · answer #8 · answered by ringo711 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
because it is the truth, santa was endorced in the victorian times...
the true santa wears green...and in germany wears white and gold
2006-12-10 04:01:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry but I did not get the drift of your question
2006-12-10 00:24:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋