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 of how human vision can interpret colors differently under certain CMV: Change my view from seeing this dress as blue and black to seeing it as white and gold. : r changemyview Fashionable Front Slit Black Long Detachable Skirt Gold Embellished Pa Sultan Dress 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