Not colourblind as far as I know either.

It's a light blue with gold lace.

even pulled it into photoshop to make sure. i don't understand how anyone sees white and gold

And I'm not kidding. I don't see how people see black.

And it's odd that we are in the minority on this.

And I'm seriously disturbed by it, haha.

I just saw the same story in the local abc news web page. What color is this dress!?!?!?!????? So i told them, white & gold. The photo is of a white & gold dress. Amazon is showing a blue and black dress. The world's going to hell in a handbasket and we're (including me) caught up in stupidity.

I'm thinking that's the case here too. I have to wonder if this is that company doing a sneaky advertising stunt, to be honest, because they have several different colors available on Amazon of the same dress.

to do this we are doomed. Is it this or is it that? It's that NO it's this!
Certs is a candy mint! Certs is a breath mint! (That's from a very old commercial)
I can't sleep till I know! Who DOES know? THE INTERNET"S BURNING!
But then we're probably doomed anyway.....

Oh, for God's sake now it's on Good Morning America.

Tell me about it.

distracted with the DRESS(es).

I did manage to tear myself away long enough to see that even the FBI thought Fred Phelps' family was a hate group. Apparently, they had a file on him dating back to the late 60s and said that the fact that he was a lawyer kept him from getting arrested with all this family's protesting. They knew where the line was and knew how to keep from crossing it, as far as the law goes. That's not covering basic human decency. They crossed that line decades ago.

I think they had something to say about NPH wearing his undies at the Oscars and that put them back on the news radar again. Best comment I saw on that was that Shirley Phelps wore sunglasses so she could sneak a peak at him.

We even switched chairs to see if it was the angle...and, it was the same thing, White/gold for her, blue/black for me.

It's really bizarre

first and foremost, that image needs to be color-corrected!

Until that happens, it's rather pointless to choose correct colors.

Okay fine. I see royal purple and pale lime-green

When I first went to the link I saw it as white and gold. Then, I scrolled to the end of the page and it was still white and gold. When I went to scroll up it looked blue and black.

How did they do that? WTF?

Maybe I'll go look at it on my phone, on an old lap top now.

randomly and prank people.

This is the one I see as bluish and gold/brown:

They do exist. I used to work at a place online that used them. I wish I had software that handles those file types to check it out. If you scroll up from the bottom and look at the bottom portion, it's the gold and blue. If you look from the top, it's the gold and white. Either way, the picture isn't very clear and has an extremely blurry, messed up background. If you sit and look at the picture a while, your eyes will adjust back and forth on the white/blue color. I still don't see the black in that particular picture. There is a blue and black one on Amazon, plus an ivory and black one there too. I do see the black color in those pictures.

same angle. White/gold for her, blue/black for me. It didn't change for either one of us

My coworkers and I looked at the picture at the same time on the same computer at different angles. Some of us saw it as black/blue and some as white/gold.

white and gold. Very strange.

I'd prefer calling the gold "camel" because it doesn't have a metallic look to it, and it's not a yellow gold.

But black and blue? No way no how. And it's the same on numerous FB feeds. Some see white and gold (or light brown) and some black and blue.

Crazy, huh?

Could be a metallic bronze though. But not white and gold.

Photo shot in the shade, which turns the white blue.

My oldest daughter brought the photo up on her iphone. We all agreed it was blue and black.

She then turned the brightness all the way up. She and my husband saw white and gold, yet I still saw blue and black.

This is very odd.

Some notes: We are all sitting in the same lighting. We all have blue eyes. Daughter and Husband wear corrective lenses, contacts, I do not.

I don't know, I just don't get this.

The brightness effects the background and how your eyes interpret the blends of the colors. The brightness impacts that because you have more cones than they do, for them the brightness kicks in the rods which see black and white.

That makes sense.

It seems to be unique with this picture

it has to do with the colors and lighting in that picture.

On different screens from differe sources. Its about the cones in your eyes and how colors are blended.

My daughter and I see white and gold, Alley and our Man Cub see blue and grey.
The wierd thing is that they tried pulling the image on the same device and saw different colors..

http://swiked.tumblr.com/image/112166688660

now it's bluish/purple and black.

And there's always this one:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Checker_shadow_illusion

The CBS News affiliate in L.A. just teased an upcoming story on it.

How the hell do people see white and gold?

Now I can only see blue and black. I can't explain it.

But that's from a photo taken with professional lighting and an expensive camera.

This is a photo of a dress taken with a low-rez camera in shaded sunlight. My guess is the photographer's picture was too dark to see the detail and so they adjusted the brightness/saturation settings in an image editor.

I see a blue-hued white dress with gold/brown lace trim and yoke.

I am a bit confused by this?

Me: White and gold.

If I almost completely shut my eyes or tilt my tablet so its light doesn't reflect at me...blue and black.

save the fights for the big things

not over the colors in a dress

i (also) think it's white/gold or maybe ivory/gold but my monitor makes the white look blueish and the gold look bronzeish

But we both think the other is crazy. Thanks for the excellent advice, though.

This was interesting:
http://www.wired.com/2015/02/science-one-agrees-color-dress/

Interestingly, if I look at the solid jacket first, all I see is white and gold.

If I look at the bottom, a bluish hue comes out.

i love the sapphire color

prove that the dress is actually blue and black.

So here is an interesting quote to me -

People who see blue and black are seeing the photo at face value. People who see gold and white are compensating to the photo’s lighting and aesthetic.

There is no black. There is no white.

With light, white is all the spectrum colors combined and black is the absence of light. With pigment, black is all the colors combined and white is the absence of pigment.

blue and gold or white and gold. I've never seen black. WTH are the blue and black people seeing?

what theres a dress ?

If not then the power of suggestion is pretty powerful (the "white/gold" alternative is provided to the reader.)

Or maybe a psych student doing a social experiment?

Worrisome if 75% of the viewers are not reporting the dress as blue/black.

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Perfect!

At first I was on Team white/gold. Then I looked from an angle and it was blue black. My husband says it's not changing, it's blue/black.

The talk of the town.

Which is it - the photo itself, the device it's viewed on, or are we all losing our minds??

Specifically how your rods and cones are actually working.

It's almost by design...

But now every time I pull it up I see a blue and black dress. Has the dress actually changed or is it my perception?

I've looked at it and can't help but wonder now, what's the gimmick?

My man and I see colors differently all the time. I think he must be color-blind, he says that I am.

I don't get the fascination with that pic, at all.

I see black and blue. 3/4 of my office saw white/gold. Even when we looked at the same picture at the same time, we saw different colors. I personally think it is an ugly dress.

I guess I am glad that is how I see it.

The Internet at its internetest.

Because that's what this dress is.

My opinion as a color professional of 21 years standing: it's a very poorly lit and even more poorly exposed image of a white dress with gold trim. White objects only look like they are if white light strikes them. If the side of the item being photographed is facing bad light, it won't look white. Whoever made this picture just hung the dress in the window and snapped a photo of it.