Santa Colour Thingy.

senordingdong

I'm sure this has been done before so sorry to the elite(!)

Seriously though, not looking for a debate on the matter, I just want someone to quicly tell me if the biug red lad used to be the big blue, or the big green lad.

Cheers.

cil_aine

yea he was originally green, i think coca cola were the first to make him red?

senordingdong

Yeah but I think I read somewhere that there was some corelation with Saint Nick and the colour blue.

Seriously?i never knew that!

senordingdong

I can't say for sure Dazzler.

3greenrizla's

i thought he was dressed in white untill coke changed him into red & white

Goodshape

Pope Sidius was on the telly recently in a [santa claus-ish] red and white hat... I think the hat had something to do with Christmas, but not directly related to Santa (can't exactly remember what they said about it).

That have anything to do with Santa's look? Anyone here know what the story is with the Popes hat?


...and the only time I remember seeing or hearing anything about a blue Santa was in Pepsi's Christmas ad campaign a few years ago. I took it that Coke wouldn't let them use the red version (which is registerd trademark of coca-cola iirc).


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it seems the red-and-white santa was not invented by coca-cola.

senordingdong

Impossible, Santas image is everywhere and I doubht everyone pays royalties to coke.

As I recall, Pepsi simply tried to cop they idea, but it never caught on.

Goodshape

senordingdong wrote:

Impossible, Santas image is everywhere and I doubht everyone pays royalties to coke.

As I recall, Pepsi simply tried to cop they idea, but it never caught on.

Yea, I'm sure you're right. But have a look at the small print of any Santa related Coca-Cola stuff.. I'm pretty sure there's something there to the effect of "santa is a registered trademark".

spiderlegs

I think santa originally wore natural colours and stuff...like animal skins, brown and green clothes.Then some clever artist for coke decided to put him in red and white..(they're the "coke" colours) and the image just took hold and everyone bought into it.

Sparky

well good ould wiki has some answers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus

whiskeyman

Don't forget Snopes

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

At the beginning of the 1930s, the burgeoning Coca-Cola company was still looking for ways to increase sales of their product during winter, then a slow time of year for the soft drink market. They turned to a talented commercial illustrator named Haddon Sundblom, who created a series of memorable drawings that associated the figure of a larger than life, red-and-white garbed Santa Claus with Coca-Cola.

Capt'n Midnight

Santa

Do you mean Father Christmas ?

senordingdong

Great, wikipedia has just caused more questions.