Following is a transcript of the video. Arielle Eckstut: So there is no definitive history of the colors of Christmas.It's not like one day red and green were declared the colors. There's a long ...

Traditional red and green ornaments on a Christmas tree. Aside from being beautiful, the colors of the holiday season have some significance, some culturally and some simply commercially.

Red and green were Christmas colors well before Coke was being sold as Santa’s favorite beverage. For instance, an 1896 newspaper mentions, “The decoration of the hall was as unique and ...