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Show Ho lew Lock' For S. Glaus There'll be no "new look" nor any alterations at all in the traditional tra-ditional garb of Santa Claus. Enthroned in popular conception in his red jacket with the white fur trim, his red cap and red breeches, Santa Claus was just as firmly enthroned en-throned in the department stores, toy shops and everywhere else one has seen him this Christmas. As far back as memory goes, almost, Santa's cheery cheeks framed by a flowing white beard, have been a trademark of the jolly gentleman who slides down chimneys with a sack full of toys. Tradition hasn't been able to do anything about breeding the proper Santa Claus girth, but it has set a fashion in Santa Claus apparel that has changed only slightly since the first picture of Mr. Claus appeared in a cartoon back in the 1860's. The actual story of Santa's fur-trimmed fur-trimmed outfit has become kind of garbled in mythology, but Thomas Nast, political cartoonist of the Civil War days, put the finishing touches on the old gentleman's attire. at-tire. He restored the red color of the bishop's robe, that had been borrowed from the Dutch who brought the legend of St. Nicholas Nicho-las to America with them. Nast also pictured the buxom gentleman gen-tleman In jacket, trousers and high boots. And those articles of apparel, together with some addition of fur and color, abide to the present day in the garb of Santa Claus. |