The Dress: An Interactive Classroom Experiment by Andrew Robinson Precarious Physicist Medium 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 Pin by B D on Awesome White gold dress, Yellow and white dress, White dress outfit The Science of Why No One Agrees on the Color of This Dress WIRED so we know the dress was black and blue BUT that's not what i'm here to discuss : r opticalillusions Light blue homecoming dress, brand new that I cannot return, size 4. It is too big for my daughter. They are selling for $59 on Amazon.