When you are planning your Yuletide wardrobe, these colors are likely to be popular choices for whatever you are wearing, including holiday lingerie as well as very special and festive Holiday costumes. Wearing any of our red and green based holiday designs is a great way to get into a festive spirit as well as to spread a little Christmas cheer--whether it is at a holiday party, local celebration or even just at home in your own private quarters. Red and green will always be the colors of Christmas.
When you think of Christmas, you can’t help but conjure up the colors of red and green. During the holiday season, red and green are virtually everywhere, from the decorations you see in the stores and in your home, to Santa’s very own unique holiday suit. Have you ever stopped to consider how red and green came to be the universal colors that we associate with Christmas? Where did this traditional color combination come from anyway?
Believe it or not, the Christmas use of red and green likely comes from a practice that was happening back during the Middle Ages, but interestingly enough it initially didn’t really have a whole lot to do with Christmas. During the 1300’s, because people were largely illiterate, it was popular for churches to conduct plays in order to teach church doctrine or stories. A popular day celebrated during this time period was that of Adam and Eve day, which at this time was celebrated on December the 24th. On Adam and Eve day, the Paradise Play would recreate the story of the predicament of Adam and Eve while in the Garden of Eden. A tree, representing the “Tree of Good and Evil” was needed, but during the winter months the only one that was available was a pine tree, thus this type of tree was used to portray the fruit-bearing foliage during the play.
This pine tree, decorated beautifully with apples became so popular because of it’s use during The Paradise Play that many churches took to using one of them as a prop at the church during their celebrations at this time of the year. The people of Germany took a particular liking to this tradition. Over the years, it began to be a regular practice in Germany for every day people to have a pine tree inside their homes, decorated with apples in addition to nuts and sugar wafers that were also used as ornaments. These lovely decorated trees, which were often left up through the Christmas holidays, gradually became heavily associated with Christmas. The practice of putting up a Christmas tree came to America along with the German immigrants. Once a primarily German tradition, the use of Christmas trees gained in popularity over the years, most particularly when in 1848, Queen Victoria decorated a tree in her home that was grandly featured in the London News. Suddenly, the ancient tradition of the Christmas tree became highly fashionable and this ritual has continued up until this very day. During the holidays, the Christmas tree is often the centerpiece of most people’s homes, green being the color of the evergreen tree itself, and red being one of the most popular choices used to trim it with. The Paradise Tree had evolved into a Christmas tree, which in turn led to the association of red and green with Christmas forevermore.
The colors of red and green are hardly just for Christmas trees and decorations during the holiday season, however. When you are planning your Yuletide wardrobe, these colors are likely to be popular choices for whatever you are wearing, including holiday lingerie as well as very special and festive Holiday costumes. Wearing any of our red and green based holiday designs is a great way to get into a festive spirit as well as to spread a little Christmas cheer–whether it is at a holiday party, local celebration or even just at home in your own private quarters. Red and green will always be the colors of Christmas. Be sure to wear yours, and wear it well with some of our unique and special holiday themed lingerie and costume fashions. It may not be exactly what the ancients had in mind in those early days when the happenings that took place in the Garden of Eden were reenacted, but we are pretty sure our holiday looks will create something pretty darn close to paradise nonetheless. Add a sexy twist to holiday tradition with one of these enticing and seductive looks!
