Seriously? It’s definitely blue and black on my laptop.
So so obviously blue and black except my husband - standing next to me - just looked at it and saw white and gold. I can’t even begin to understand how he can’t see how blue the dress is.
The actual, physical dress is blue and black. Here it is on Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Roman-Womens-Detail-Bodycon-Dress/dp/B00SJEUCWU.
The issue is the photo. Cameras often cannot capture true color, especially in the bad lighting in stores.
My husband and I looked at photo together, same screen, same time, same lighting – he sees blue and black and I see white and gold. It is bizarre. We both think the other is nuts. I’ve looked at the photo in different lighting on different screens, and it’s always white and gold to me. There are several articles out there explaining the science of why we see it differently.
I watched a lot of the commentary on the dresses worn to the various award shows. Several times they would mention that in person, a dress looked spectacular, but that in the photos, both the colors and other factors were changed or muted.
I’ve looked at several photos of the dress online and in some it’s white/gold and in others it’s blue/black. In the photo from the link posted in the original post above, it looks mostly white/gold, although the white part has a faint bluish tinge to it. Doesn’t matter how many times I look at the pictures, they never change from my original perception of them. Weird.
I understand that some people see only blue and black or white and gold. What was tripping me out was that the color kept changing on the same picture. My mind was playing tricks on me. I believe that everyone can see white and gold or blue and black because I’ve can see both.
The dress in the link above looks blue and black to me.
I just started reading the comments on the Amazon dress listing. People are having fun with this.
It was white and gold on both my ipad this morning and the link above.
Earlier someone showed me this and I saw white and gold, now I see blue and black.
So is it the same color to everybody seeing it live?
@barfly I went back to try that. When I focused on the white shrug jacket part, I could literally see it morph to a grey/lavendar…like the colors were moving. When I would blink, it would lighten up to white somewhat again. I could never stare long enough for the gold to turn black. This is freaky.
The original photo is, to me, clearly black and blue but other photos are being circulated. One shows a clearly white and gold version of the same dress. Another shows the black and blue dress but in a clear shot.
@conmama, that’s what I’m talking about. The color changes. When my daughter asked me to look at the color, I had her send it to me on my phone to make sure that she wasn’t tricking me.
Ok, now I can make the same photo flip from white/gold to blue/black. It’s like those 3-D pictures on cereal boxes, or the black and white drawing that looks like faces or a chalice, or other optical illusions where you can make them flip back and forth. If it looks white/gold, and I stare at the white stripes on the dress and focus on how blue they look, then the “gold” stripes switch to black.
Recently we went to see a water color exhibit at a local art museum, and there was a painting of a white house, and the description pointed out how only blue and gray paint was used to create the illusion of a white house. Since then, I have noticed that if I really look carefully at white objects, what I really see are shades of blue and gray (not 50 Shades of Grey, just a few shades of gray). Eye tricks. I’m sure artists see things like this all around them, but it was new to me.
@Barfly, I’ve noticed that sometimes after a fresh snow that the snow looks white and sometimes slightly blue.
Is it similar in concept to how you might look at something, look away and then the opposite colors are burned into your retina so you see something when you blink?
Hence the old saying, @4CookieMonster, “Don’t eat blue snow”. I think that’s how it goes.
I saw something on CNN and the majority see white/gold. I think what is strange is that I can understand seeing the white more greyish/blusish because it still seems “white”. What I don’t understand is how the brain can play that drastic of a trick? I haven’t seen that explained yet.
@Barfly, I’ve never heard that before.
Blue and black. Only.