What color is this dress?

[Anonymous]

Silver and gold while my husband next to me saw blue and black.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a stunt because the girl who posted it is an aspiring musician who said she wants to play guitar with Taylor Swift. This is her gimmick to go viral. It's working.

You're right. It's done to attract attention. But that doesn't mean that the actual photo and its interpretation isn't interesting.

[Anonymous]

The answer to why this black/blue dress looks white/gold can be explained with one word. Context.

Bad lighting or off-color lighting, as well as a background which has a color which juxtaposed against the dress influences how you see it, makes you see colors that aren't there because that's how they actually appear relative to surroundings. Like theatre lighting. Or Instagram filters.

[Anonymous]

Correct, it's an interesting gimmick. Just pointing out the stunt so folks don't believe it's voodoo or science...because it isn't...unless you think the magic tricks of NPH are science :0)

[Anonymous]

I see Brown and blue. Just showed it to my co-worker who is convinced that it's white and brown. Of course, she's nuts, so there's that ...

[Anonymous]

Squint at it real hard until you see light/dark. The "gold" will read dark, and it'll appear black. Then you'll be more able to read the "white" as blue. If you distill it down to value (light dark) it will make more sense. My job is color. Hope that helps.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Squint at it real hard until you see light/dark. The "gold" will read dark, and it'll appear black. Then you'll be more able to read the "white" as blue. If you distill it down to value (light dark) it will make more sense. My job is color. Hope that helps.

If the dress looks blue with black lace, then how do you make it look white? I still haven't seen the white dress.

[Anonymous]

light blue with brown

[Anonymous]

It's blue and gold. On my phone, on my laptop. Glasses on or off, looking at that link that shows a picture of it held up and then tilted flat. It's blue and gold.

Any other way means you need to have your vision checked.

[Anonymous]

I can see it in blue/black and white/gold

[Anonymous]

when i first looked at it for a solid 5-10 min I only saw white and gold. I looked at in on my monitor and my iphone. Saw nothing but white and gold, thought the blue/black people were joking.

Then a looked at a picture of the actual dress in blue/black and now all i can see when i look at it is blue/black.

sometimes the blue looks lighter, but as i look at it it gets darker.

[Anonymous]

Either really light blue and gold or white and gold. I have looked at every variation of this picture and I cannot see the black and blue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Correct, it's an interesting gimmick. Just pointing out the stunt so folks don't believe it's voodoo or science...because it isn't...unless you think the magic tricks of NPH are science :0)

I guess the part I don't agree with you about is that it's not science. Isn't any optical illusion partly science? It's how you can see two different things in the same image. This is more about how people see and process the same colors differently.

[Anonymous]

You people are nuts. Is this some kind of weird trickery? It's CLEARLY blue with black lace. There is no way that anyone could ever see it as gold. I just don't get it.

[Anonymous]

I was only seeing gold and white on my phone last night in my house. Now outside in the sunlight I'm seeing black and brown. This is nuts.