Stars & Stripes Black Western Shirt with Metallic Gold Floral Embroidery M L Reign Vintage The Dress. Is it blue and black or white and gold? Here is the confirmed answer. OppoSuits Men's Shiny Snake Gold Long Sleeve Shirt, Large How I Flipped My Brain's View of the Black and Blue Dress Jeff Greenhouse Happy 10th anniversary to the original photograph of "The Dress" and the subsequent internet debate over white and gold or black and blue : r popculturechat 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