What color is the dress? Why do some people see blue and black and some people see gold and white when looking at a single image of a dress? : r askscience 1920s Beaded Mable Flapper Dress Black & Gold Flapper Boutique I See White and Gold, but the Dress Taught Me How We Shape Our Own Reality by Shaant A Culturated Medium 1920s Cleo Flapper Dress in Black & Gold Flapper Boutique The Dress: An Interactive Classroom Experiment by Andrew Robinson Precarious Physicist Medium 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