TheDress couple: 'we were completely left out from the story' BBC News The Dress: An Interactive Classroom Experiment by Andrew Robinson Precarious Physicist Medium White & Gold Or Blue & Black? Debate Over Dress Color Rages On Three years of research into #thedress, digested BPS In 2015, a photograph of a dress went viral, dividing viewers over whether its colors were blue and black or white and gold. This optical illusion highlighted differences in human color 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