All Dressed Up for Christmas -The Santa Suit Tradition

Many bodies from about the apple dress in Santa apparel anniversary year but beneath bodies apperceive how the attitude started. St. Nicolas was a Catholic Bishop about 300 AD who spent a ample sum of his money and time giving ability to children. Dressed in his red bathrobe with a connected white bristles and red hat, he afterwards became a saint.

But back the Reformation happened, and the Protestants breach from the Catholic Church, they still connected the abstraction of St. Nicholas as actuality a Christmas amount and his Christmas apparel backward the aforementioned for the best part. But not connected afterwards that point anniversary country began developed their own Christmastime gift-givers, putting them in agnate Santa suits, although they assorted in blush (and some of which were alike dressed in black).

For example, in England St. Nick became Father Christmas. But instead of the Santa apparel of St. Nick of the Catholic Church, sprigs of holly, ivy and mistletoe adorned his outfit. In France, the Protestants alleged him Pere Noel while the Germans alleged him Weihnachtsmann, which agency Christmas man. To the Dutch, he was accepted as Sinterklaas. As immigrants came to America abounding bodies from the alloyed nationalities mispronounced his name and Sinterklaas became Santa Claus.

But alike countries that didn’t accept a affiliation to Christianity began to accept their own ‘wintertime’ customs. For example, back Russia became a antipathetic state, and banned Christianity, Santa’s name was afflicted to Grandfather Frost. Pictures of him in any Santa apparel showed him dressed in dejected rather than the acceptable red garb.

But no amount the names for the amount or the colors of their Santa suits, the ‘St. Nicks’ of the apple accept consistently had two things in common: they all accept long, white beards and they all backpack ability for children.