The actual dress was black and blue. The confusion came from how lighting and color perception tricked people's brains, making some see it as white and gold. It became a viral example This explains how the blue black white gold dress illusion was possible. But it doesn't explain why some people saw it one way and some saw it the other, and no one seemed to see Dancing Queen 4385 Off Shoulder Embellished Prom Dress ADASA The White and Gold (No, Blue and Black!) Dress That Melted the Internet The New York Times Yall remember.The Dress? Its been 10 years since group chats across the globe exploded in black and blue vs gold and white controversy, and were here to set things straight. Its time for a lesson The Dress: An Interactive Classroom Experiment by Andrew Robinson Precarious Physicist Medium