Ellen Debuts #TheDress: Real Story Behind #WhiteandGold and the Wedding That Started It All The White and Gold (No, Blue and Black!) Dress That Melted the Internet The New York Times 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 Is the dress blue or gold? The phenomenon originated in a photograph of a dress posted on Facebook in 2015. The dress was black and blue, but the conditions of the photograph