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Coca-Cola - Size XL - Deadstock

Vintage 1994 Coca-Cola Polar Bears T-Shirt – Christmas Coke Graphic Tee – Made in USA

Vintage 1994 Coca-Cola Polar Bears T-Shirt – Christmas Coke Graphic Tee – Made in USA

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Original vintage Coca-Cola T-shirt from 1994, featuring the famous Coca-Cola polar bear graphic, one of the brand's most recognizable and collectible advertising subjects in the 90s.

The front print depicts a group of polar bears holding Coca-Cola bottles under a starry night sky lit by the aurora, a clear reference to Coca-Cola's iconic winter and Christmas campaigns around the world.

Printed on navy blue cotton T-shirt, Made in USA, pre-shrunk, copyright ©1994 The Coca-Cola Company.

Cut

Suggested size: XL
Label size: XL

Measures:
Length - 77cm
Shoulders-57cm
Sleeves-23cm
Width-57cm 📏

Size Guide
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On vintage garments, the label may not reflect the current fit: washing, alterations, and past fashions may have changed the original dimensions.

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Conditions

The condition of our garments is classified according to the following scale:

  • Deadstock : Like-new condition, no defects. Fabrics and trim are practically new.
  • Very Good : In excellent condition, with any minor imperfections shown in the photos.
  • Good : In good overall condition, with signs of wear or obvious defects shown in the photos.
  • Fair : with obvious wear and visible defects shown in the photos.

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Story Time

How a soft drink helped redefine Christmas

In the 1920s, Coca-Cola faced a simple problem: who wanted an ice-cold drink when it was cold outside? The answer was pure storytelling: tying the brand to Christmas. Early ads showed a stern, old-fashioned Santa Claus, but that all changed in 1931, when illustrator Haddon Sundblom painted the Santa Claus we still recognize today: warm, good-natured, rosy-cheeked, pleasantly plump, and dressed in red and white. Coca-Cola didn't invent Santa Claus or his red suit, but through decades of repetition and global distribution, it helped standardize the image around the world, to the point that seeing Santa Claus drinking a Coca-Cola began to seem natural, even traditional.

That influence, however, wasn't welcomed everywhere. In 1951, in Dijon, France, resistance erupted when some members of the Catholic clergy publicly burned a Santa Claus effigy in front of the cathedral. The protest wasn't really against Santa Claus himself, but against what he now represented: the American commercial culture replacing religious significance and local traditions. Newspapers described it as a symbolic rejection of a "pagan and consumerist" Santa Claus, and the Coca-Cola imagery, already widespread in postwar Europe, was often cited as part of that cultural shift. Paradoxically, the controversy only demonstrated how powerful that image had become.

At the end of the 20th century, Coca-Cola expanded its Christmas universe without abandoning Santa Claus. Polar bears became seasonal icons after the "Northern Lights" ad in the early 1990s. The brand even played a discreet role in the history of Christmas media, sponsoring A Charlie Brown Christmas in 1965. By the 1990s, Coca-Cola was no longer just promoting Christmas: it had helped define the way much of the world imagined it.