# Why does Santa Claus wear red?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [January 8, 2018, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-santa-claus-wear-red/806147 "2018-01-08T16:18:06Z")\
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**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\
**Post date:** [January 9, 2018, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-santa-claus-wear-red/806147/21 "2018-01-09T21:06:07Z")

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> [@GreenWyvern](#):
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> He seems to be talking about a specific _indigo-coloured_ dye, ‘the indigo dye of H. Trunculus’, which comes from a shellfish, rather than the indigo dye from the indigo plant.

The exact words are "The dye known as indigo originated from a similar sea snail " There’s only one dye _known as indigo (as opposed to dyes that produce the colour_ indigo, there are several of those, like woad) Like I said, lacking rigour.

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**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2018, 2:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-does-santa-claus-wear-red/806147/22 "2018-01-10T14:34:26Z")

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