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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Isn't the red Christmas outfit something Coca Cola came up with? So only since the 20th century? I think I've read the outfit was mostly green before that.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No, but it's a myth so common basically everyone believes it to be true.

The Santa we have today is an amalgamation of a few characters. The red outfit comes from Saint Nicolas. You can just look up "Saint Nicolas" and you'll find many fairly old depictions of a Christian bishop-like character in red garments carrying a bag of gifts.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Interesting. I found it weird Santa looked so much like Saint Nicolas. Which we celebrate here.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

The Dutch brought Sinterklaas (Saint Nicholas) to New Amsterdam, current day NYC, which has developed into Santa Claus as we know it know. Santa Claus is a phonetic derivation of Sinterklaas.

Apparently he was depicted as a thick-bellied Dutch sailor with a pipe and a green outfit in Washington Irving’s History of New York book, so maybe that’s where you got that idea from.

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus