Is it true that Santa didnt exist until Coca Cola advertising guys dreamed him up to promote their product?!
Also the outfit was up dated like the other have said, the European versions up to that time had dominated the way he was depicted, there updating anre formating of the "Santa Claus" image was the most effect upgrade to his image and the whole dpeiction of himas a Christmas symbol.
They still have Sinder Claus and Black Peter in Holland, Father Christmas is the rest of Europe from Sweden to the UK and Germany, it more a person who distributed gifts to children, more then the North American iamge of the super-human flying sled and the rest of the legend his is attributed with.
Answers: The Cola-Cola advertising issue of the 1930's just brought him to the forfront and used his image as a promotional instrument.
Also the outfit was up dated like the other have said, the European versions up to that time had dominated the way he was depicted, there updating anre formating of the "Santa Claus" image was the most effect upgrade to his image and the whole dpeiction of himas a Christmas symbol.
They still have Sinder Claus and Black Peter in Holland, Father Christmas is the rest of Europe from Sweden to the UK and Germany, it more a person who distributed gifts to children, more then the North American iamge of the super-human flying sled and the rest of the legend his is attributed with.
no he existed before that.
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No. They have used him in order to promote their product. In victorian times (I think it was) There used to be an old gentlemen named St.Nicholas and he used to make toys for poor children (This is the version that I know of, but religious people probably will say that I'm wrong ^^) Merry Christmas!
The American version of Santa Claus was inspired by the Dutch "Sinter Klaus" in New York in the 17th century.
Washington Irving wrote about Santa in 1809.
By 1823 Santa became fully Americanized in the poem by Clement Moore, "Twas the Night before Christmas".
Illustrator, Thomas Nast, depicted Santa in Harper's Magazine from the 1860s to the 1880s.
Coca Cola introduced a life-sized Santa (as opposed to elf sized) in 1931.
Interesting website: http://www.the-north-pole.com/history/in...
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No, Santa traces his history back to St. Nicholas, who really was a person who lived in 14th (I think) Century Turkey.
no, santa has been around for alot longer than coke a clola, some people say that santa was green untill coke a cola made hime red, but I dunno about that one