What Color Is The Dress? The Color Theory Behind The Debate Not Sorry Art 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 Why nobody could agree on the color of that dress on X How "The Dress" Became an Illusion Unlike Any Other Scientific American 8,143 Black Blue White Gold Dress Stock Vectors and Vector Art Shutterstock The White and Gold (No, Blue and Black!) Dress That Melted the Internet The New York Times