Heh...yer gettin’ the idea.
I don’t know what they’re thinking, but I was hoping for sort of a Gandalf meets “The Santa Clause” meets “Northern Exposure” kind of look.
When I started doing the Holly Fair, I started collecting St. Nick figures, and I lean toward the Bishop of Myra, or Victorian Father Christmas look, with the long robe, rather than the Thomas Nast, jolly old fat man, design. The first one I bought was a hand-painted wooden one, and he has a long light blue robe; it is beautiful.