Rocking Christmas colours

Hadiza Nuhhu-Billa Quansah Lifestyle Dec - 24 - 2021 , 23:40 2 minutes read

Have you thought of what to wear during this coming festivities? The boutiques, malls, online shops, open market and bend-down boutiques all have some good and attractive things to offer.

Trending currently are outfits that come in the traditional Christmas colours of red, green, white, blue and gold.

Since time immemorial Romans used to share with each other evergreen branches of trees during the Christmas period to January to wish each other good luck.

The white colour is a vivid representation of peace and purity during the Yuletide. For those abroad, the snow at winter is also white, the reason why you find some artificial Christmas trees with snow on them.

Red is also considered as the colour of the Holly berries, which is often used to represent the blood of Jesus who is believed to have died on the cross. In addition to that, red is also the Bishop robes' colours! These must first have been worn by ST. Nicholas which then became the uniform of Santa.

Blue is a significant colour of Christmas, which represents Jesus' mother. In the earlier times, blue dye was more expensive than gold. And, so only the people from the royal families and kings used to wear blue because they were important people of the whole community.

During Christmas, Mary was painted with blue colour to show that she is a significant person in the community.

Gold is considered as the colour associated with light and sun, both of which are very important during the Christmas season. Sometimes, silver is also used in place of gold, but gold is the colour that actually represents warmth.

You can have clothes, shoes, bags and accessories in the various traditional colours of Christmas and symbols such as stars, wreaths, bells, Santa, candy cane, cross, candles, trees, gift boxes and a baby.