The red hat stays on 🧑‍🎄 "On February 23, 1942, police in Trondheim announced that people caught with red hats would be punished. The red Santa hat was already popular in Norway before the World War II, according to Ingun Grimstad Klepp. The textile researcher at OsloMet is one of the authors behind the book Norsk strikkehistorie (Norwegian knitting history). People knitted the red hats themselves. The hats often had tassels. 'It is also a garment with long historical roots as a symbol of freedom and political unity,' Klepp writes." https://www.sciencenorway.no/christmas-history-second-world-war/how-norwegians-expressed-resistance-against-nazi-occupation-using-christmas-cards/2298387