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Coca-Cola advert featuring Sandblum inspired Santa, 1956. This red-suited, rosy-cheeked Santa was used in numerous Coca-Cola adverts, and probably helped to cement the modern image in the minds of Americans and the ubiquity of the drink around the world meant it became one of the most widely-seen depictions of Santa Claus.
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Photo: Coca-Cola History has offered many representations of Father Christmas, who has appeared in a range of clothing and colors over time. Perhaps the most famous portrayal, however, is that of Saint Nicholas of Myra, a 4th Century bishop depicted in familiar red robes.. The popular myth that Father Christmas owes his appearance to Coca-Cola -- the portly stature, bushy beard and red.
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Coca Cola is widely believed to be responsible for the modern image we have of Santa today. Father Christmas is the jolly old man with fluffy white hair and rosy-red cheeks who brings gifts to.
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1 Coca-Cola designed the modern Santa Claus as part of an advertising campaign. This is one you always hear at dinner parties. It makes the speaker sound rather clever and cynical. Except it's.
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A Pictorial History of Santa Claus. Contrary to what many believe, Santa Claus as we know him today - sleigh riding, gift-giving, rotund and white bearded with his distinctive red suit trimmed with white fur - was not the creation of the Coca Cola Company. Although their Christmas advertising campaigns of the 1930s and 40s were key to.
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In 1931, Sundblom was commissioned by Coca-Cola to create a series of Christmas advertisements. The soft drink company wanted a Santa that was warm, friendly, and above all, memorable. Sundblom delivered exactly that, but with an additional twist: he dressed Santa in a bright red suit.
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Father Christmas' reindeer-drawn sleigh was popularised by a 19th-century poem. It wasn't Coca-Cola. The current image of Father Christmas - jolly, white-bearded and donning red coat and trousers - was popularised in the United States and Canada by the 1823 poem A Visit from St. Nicholas.
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Father Christmas is the universally recognised symbol of the festive season in his traditional robes.. Coca-Cola's involvement kicks in in the early 1930s when Swedish artist Haddon Sundblom started drawing ads for Coke featuring a fat Santa in a red coat trimmed with fur and secured with a large belt.
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The Coca-Cola company say they invented the modern Santa Claus. The company's claim is based on the work of the Chicago ad-man Haddon Sundblom who painted Santa Claus for the Coca-Cola Christmas campaigns from 1931 to 1964. In the adverts he appears brandishing the soft drink in the company colours of red and white.
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In 1931 Coca-Cola first used Santa on their advertisements, with artist Haddon Sundblom making only one major change to the iconic portrayal of him by Thomas Nast. They switched his pipe to a glass bottle of Coke. So, whilst Santa hasn't always been red, it definitely wasn't Coke that made him red. And they definitely don't own the rights.
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In 1937 Coca Cola introduced the world to a simplified and more accessible version of Father Christmas dressed in Coca-Cola red, this time without the traditional cape. In their ads he was named.
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One might therefore fairly grant Coca-Cola some credit for cementing the modern image of Santa Claus in the public consciousness, as in an era before the advent of television, before color motion.
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The legend goes that Santa's suit is red because of a successful advertising campaign for Coca-Cola that featured Father Christmas wearing red robes with white trim, the soft drink major's colours. But the red and white are originally Saint Nicholas colours. Over time, the bishops' red and white robes were replaced by a fur-trimmed suit.
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This is more or less true; however, Coca-Cola did play a role in standardising our idea of Father Christmas that is now shown on television, Christmas Cards, and of course adverts.
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In the 40s Coca‑Cola introduced "Sprite Boy," a character who appeared with Santa Claus in Coca‑Cola advertising throughout the 1940s and 1950s. Sprite Boy, who was also created by Sundblom, got his name due to the fact that he was a sprite, or an elf. (It wasn't until the 1960s that Coca‑Cola introduced the popular beverage Sprite.)
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First, that Father Christmas delivers his gifts via chimney and second, always hang your stockings up for those extra little gifts. The tales of St Nicholas became more widely known after spreading through Italy and the rest of Europe thanks to the discovery of the bishop's relics around the year 1,000. He would become known as 'Sinterklass.