Dressed in a bright red jacket, the Santa in Sundblom's drawings ... greeting card artwork,” Sawaya says. “Dreaming of a white Christmas can, after all, be done from anywhere.” ...

Red velvet suit, white fur trim, tall black boots ... from St. Nicholas” (also known as “‘Twas the Night Before Christmas”) in 1823, as well as a lesser-credited anonymous poem that ...

You can thank Coca-Cola for popularizing the Christmas colors in Americana. Their advertising in the early 1900s featured a grandfatherly man with rosy cheeks, a white beard and red clothing with ...

The Christmas colors, red and green, prevailed ... (Mistletoe berries are actually white.) These bright reds and greens in the middle of winter may have made them natural (or obvious) candidates ...

However, one question remains: Why are red and green considered the primary colors of Christmas? According to Southern Living, Celtic people centuries ago admired red-and-green-colored holly ...