Remember when the internet was aflame with people arguing over whether a dress was blue and black or white and gold? The debate has been reignited with a new image.
The infamous viral dress(Image: Wikipedia)
Believe it or not, it’s been 16 years since the internet was ablaze with people arguing over whether a dress was blue and black or white and gold. It was in February 2015 that Scots Alana MacInnes and Caitlin McNeill posted a picture of what would become known as #TheDress on social media site Tumblr in a bid to settle a family argument about what colour it was.
While some saw it as blue and black, others insisted it was white and gold. The debate set the internet aflame, with millions of social media posts, and news articles on websites around the world.
Even celebrities got in on the action: Taylor Swift said she saw it as blue and black, adding she was “confused and scared” by the illusion, and Kim Kardashian said she believed it was white and gold, while her then-husband Kanye West saw the reverse. TV presenter Alex Jones even wore the dress on The One Show.
Now a fresh debate has begun around a new viral image with echoes of the infamous dress. The picture posted on X by Moy Miz has left people baffled. Posting the picture the user said: “This is just incredible. Both dresses on the shaded area (right side) are identical in colour.”
The illustration shows two women each wearing horizontally-striped dresses. At first glance the dress on the left appears to be blue and black, while the one on the right appears to be white and gold. Notably, both women are half in shadow, with the light dividing them both roughly in half down the middle vertically.
Another image posted by a user named Scott Lindsay proved the claim in the original tweet by extending the colour across from the left dress to the right, showing it does in fact match precisely. Scott said: “This makes me very uncomfortable.”
Key to understanding the illusion is the background of the image. X user Lars Norberg said: “Dresses are [the same colour], but backgrounds are NOT.” Replying, Moy Miz said: “Exactly… your brain adjusts for the visual effect.”
Another user, Jason Riggs, explained a trick to help yourself understand the image. He said: “For me, the trick that undoes the illusion is: look at the left girl as if she’s in a dark room wearing the same gold+white dress as on the right. Then it stops looking crazy.”
A post on Reddit showing the same image, with a clip of the two sides laid over each other, showing they are the same colour, had people equally baffled. One person said: “I put my hand over the right side of my phone to just watch the left. It never changed colour.
“When I watched them side by side, it appeared to instantly turn from black/blue to off-white with blue tint/gold. This optical illusion is just wild. The brain is amazing.”
Another said: “We’re not doing this s*** again.”
What colour was the #TheDress really?
Sorry for those convinced the dress was white and gold – back in 2015 manufacturer Roman Originals confirmed the bodycon dress was blue and black, although it was at the time available in red, pink, and ivory, each with black lace.
The company later made a one-off white and gold version, which was auctioned off for Comic Relief the same year, going for more than £2,700.
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