But within a generation the battle was over, and by the mids no self-respecting Santa would have been seen in anything but red.
Both took the externals Nast had laid down but sought to humanise Santa by portraying him more naturalistically than their predecessor. The definitive image of the red-robed one was, however, the product of hard-nosed commercialism.
They used Santa imagery throughout the s, but only in did they produce an ad the public really warmed to when they commissioned a painting by Haddon Sundblom, an American artist of Swedish and Finnish heritage many of the Americans responsible for creating the modern Santa have roots in the Europe of St Nicholas. Sundblom conjured up an idealised Santa — vast of stomach, red of face, with little round spectacles; so perpetually jolly and grinning that it must have been exhausting for the old fellow.
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Beginning in the 16 th century, Father Christmas was introduced to the UK and was the Santa-figure of the Christmas season. Like Saint Nicholas, he was a character filled with cheer, goodwill and gifts for everybody to enjoy. However, Father Christmas wore green rather than red, supposedly to symbolise the coming of spring. Over the years, Father Christmas and Santa Claus have become one, which means they both wear red. The original pictures featured Santa wearing a tan outfit, but over the next thirty years, it was gradually transformed into a red suit.
The fat and jolly Santa Claus that we know and love today was first created for an advertising campaign by Coca-Cola.
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