The Truth About the Dress: Black and Blue Explained PDF] Blue Black or White Gold? Early Stage Processing and the Color of 'The Dress' Semantic Scholar 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 Watch the dress change from Black & Blue to White & Gold right in front of your eyes by P Van Medium The dress was a viral online phenomenon in 2015, centered on a photograph of a dress that people disagreed on whether it was blue and black or white and gold. Within a Dressgate: If you saw THAT dress as white your brain was working overtime