who made father christmas red?

Answer 1

Here you go check out this link and you might not think it's coca cola-

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/santa.asp

Answer 2

Father Christmas and St. Nick are both Christmas characters that have been around for ages and ages. The look of Santa Claus that you and I know so well was created by the Coca-Cola company 75 YEARS ago... 1931!

Answer 3

Lizzie Claus and the elves, DUH!
(have you not watched the Santa Claus movie)

The logic behind is a happy jolly man, a fat red old man fits the bill. Traditionally grandparents are nicer to kids then parents, so Santa was modelled on a old grand father, and red being the most attention drawing colour to young children, Santa became red.

Answer 4

Coca Cola. I am pretty sure the original advert was painted by Norman Rockwell. Great colour and now it is recognised around the world just like the product and hey, they both make a lot of people happy.
Merry Christmas to you and I wish you happiness and peace.

Answer 5

Coca Cola

Answer 6

I think that it was the coca cola company, I'm not sure, but he's always been 'red' since i was a little girl and believe me, that was a very long time ago !

Answer 7

coca-cola did not invent santa or his red clothing.

he has always been red. My grandmother has a painting of santa from 1900 and he is red- which is way before coke was available in the U.K.

cant beleive that coca-cola push out all this rubbish.

Answer 8

Santa gets his red get up from Coca-Cola but the original Santa's get up was green but Coca-Cola have publicised him to be red along with their product.

Answer 9

St Nicholas, the Turkish saint wore blue and yellow traditionally

Santa Claus, was the Dutch version and wore Green, just like our own father Christmas, who was the old man of the Wood's the green man.

The Coca-Cola Company's headquarters are located in Atlanta, Georgia, where the drink was first concocted around 1886. Coke's inventor John Styth Pemberton was not a shrewd marketer of his drink, and the ownership of Coke eventually passed to Asa Candler, whose company remains the producer of Coke today. Candler's successful marketing, continued by his successors such as Robert Woodruff, established Coke as a major soft drink first in the United States and later around the world.

Coca-Cola's advertising has had a significant impact on American culture, and is frequently credited with the "invention" of the modern image of Santa Claus as an old man in red-and-white garments; however, while the company did in fact start promoting this image in the 1930s in its winter advertising campaigns, it was already common before that.

The modern Santa Claus derived from these two images: St. Nicholas the elf-like gift bringer described by Moore, and a friendlier "Kriss Kringle" amalgam of the Christkindlein and Pelznickel figures. The man-sized version of Santa became the dominant image around 1841, when a Philadelphia merchant named J.W. Parkinson hired a man to dress in "Criscringle" clothing and climb the chimney outside his shop.

In 1863, a caricaturist for Harper's Weekly named Thomas Nast began developing his own image of Santa. Nast gave his figure a "flowing set of whiskers" and dressed him "all in fur, from his head to his foot." Nast's 1866 montage entitled "Santa Claus and His Works" established Santa as a maker of toys; an 1869 book of the same name collected new Nast drawings with a poem by George P. Webster that identified the North Pole as Santa's home. Although Nast never settled on one size for his Santa figures (they ranged from elf-like to man-sized), his 1881 "Merry Old Santa Claus" drawing is quite close to the modern-day image.

The Santa Claus figure, although not yet standardized, was ubiquitous by the late 19th century. Santa was portrayed as both large and small; he was usually round but sometimes of normal or slight build; and he dressed in furs (like Belsnickle) or cloth suits of red, blue, green, or purple. A Boston printer named Louis Prang introduced the English custom of Christmas cards to America, and in 1885 he issued a card featuring a red-suited Santa. The chubby Santa with a red suit (like an "overweight superhero") began to replace the fur-dressed Belsnickle image and the multicolored Santas.

Answer 10

his red outfit was designed by Coca Cola for their adverts I think it was in the 1930's