How I Flipped My Brain's View of the Black and Blue Dress Jeff Greenhouse So, What Color IS That Dress, Anyway? Color Of 'The Dress' Debate: White & Gold Or Blue & Black Twitter Decides Hollywood Life What I never understood was if some folk saw the original dress as white gold & some saw it as black blue then how do side by side images like this exist showing them as two Blue black or white gold? The dress debate is over In 2015, a photograph of a dress went viral, dividing viewers over whether its colors were blue and black or white and gold. This optical illusion highlighted differences in human color perception