It’s clearly a white and gold dress under a somewhat blue light (probably sunlight through clouds or maybe a “daylight” bulb).
If you see differently, I strongly recommend a colour blindness test, it could change your life for the better! <3
It’s clearly white and gold to me. I showed my son and wife and they need to get their eyes checked because they both see blue and black. I could see my wife trolling me, my son too, but I asked him before I asked her, and he’s too young to have seen this the last time it came around.
Actually, it’s funny you say that since I am colorblind and have always seen it as black and blue. More to the point, the dress is actually black and blue.
I looked at it an hour ago, and all I could see was white and gold. I picked up my phone now, and it’s blue and black. Your brain is going to interpret it based on the context within which you’ve been in, and what the local lighting conditions are.
FWIW, as others have mentioned, the actual dress was, in fact, blue and black.
I’m looking at the image on a very high quality OLED screen. On an OLED, it’s very obviously NOT black. You can see the top of the dress in the light and it’s not at all black. The black on my screen makes that incredibly obvious. Who cares what it is in real life, I’m not judging that, I’m judging the image and black is not a part of the dress, in this image.
The Guardian’s image is black and blue. The image in this thread IS NOT. My eyes may look red in a photo, that doesn’t mean they’re really red. An image is not a perfect reflection of reality.
whoever get this confused has never fix the white balance of a picture’s color temperature
White and gold
I can’t not see white and gold. The white just looks like it’s in shadow.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20935843/
Also:
Shadow Color
In real life, shadows often appear to be a different color than the area around them. For example, outdoors on a sunny day, shadows can appear to be tinted blue. The shadows appear blue because the bright yellow light from the sun is blocked from the shadow area, leaving only indirect light and blue light from other parts of the sky.
So basically, if the light source has a yellow color to it (which many often do), the shadows can appear blue.