What Colour Is This Dress?

[small_world]

Srsly guise...

[QDRPHNC]

White and mustard?

Or gold? Can't tell if it's shiny from the pic.

[Brundle-Fly]

White and tan?

[Cerys]

I'm posting from my Kindle, which is monochromatic and has the images disabled, so I'm going to say it's green.  I like green.

[small_world]

You're all joking with me yes?

[Mr Banlon]

Lavender and ochre

[hummingofevil]

It's definitely blue and black.

[QDRPHNC]

[small_world]

Yes.
The dress is blue and black.

What trickery is this?

[Onken]

apricot

[Claude the Racecar Driving Rockstar Super Sleuth]

They're all white after I've finished with them.



For I run a bleachery.

[wosl]

When you invert the picture, the colour areas on the dress swap hue and value almost exactly.  Neat.

 

[small_world]

So, it would be better to ask, what colour is the background?

That makes no sense though, who looks at a screen st that angle?
Or is that not the point and the inversion colour swap is simply due to the same thing that makes it an optical illusion in the first place?

[Kishi the Bad Lampshade]

I saw this picture before and found it to be blue and chocolate brown. But when you posted it here, I could only see the top of the picture before scrolling down, and when I could only see the first few inches it looked white and gold.

[TIAL]

I've been looking at this for half an hour and all I ever see is blue and black.

Is my phone not turned up bright enough or something?

[small_world]

They're all white after I've finished with them.

For I am Michael Barrymore

[Big Jack McBastard]

Srsly guise...

White and gold (or brassy brown).

What, what are we supposed to say? The light behind it makes it look darker from this side, shadow on it and all.

[Big Jack McBastard]

That's the one listed as Royal Blue on top, if you're seeing that blend in like a chameleon you've got some fucked up peepers or a really shitty monitor/bad settings.

[Birdie]

Is it teal?

[Big Jack McBastard]

Is it Ghostbusters 2?

[El Unicornio, mang]

I've had a couple of times when friends have said an item of clothing I or they are wearing is black, when it's clearly blue. I even put it next to something black and they just say "It's a different shade of black". Some people just see colours weirdly.

I saw a pic of that dress on facebook and it looked blue and gold. But on here it looks white and gold, presumably because of CaB being blue.

[Paul Calf]

I think it's white and gold. The slight blueness seems to be due to a slightly skewed white balance. Perhaps the camera's  auto white balance was thrown off by overcompensation for the overexposed yellow light in the background.

[MuteBanana]

Lilac and chocolate.

[biggytitbo]

Whatever colour it is it would look better on my bedroom floor. Or in a bin, it's horrible.

[zomgmouse]

It's a vase

[Beagle 2]

White (or slightly off white) and gold. I don't understand, is this going to look different on my computer or something?

[poo]

Fucking who gives a fucking fuck.

[brat-sampson]

It depends if you mentally compensate the bluey-part to be actually white as the whole thing's in shadow, or if you mentally correct the goldy-part as black due to bright reflection and over-saturation.

[small_world]

When you invert the picture, the colour areas on the dress swap hue and value almost exactly.  Neat.

 

This is what I imagine the different sets of people are seeing.
I posted the top image, where the dress is blue, with black stripes.
The bottom image, which to me, looks inverted, is white and gold.
The top image looks real, where the bottom one does seem to have some sort of effect on it. In this case, it looks like a negative.


I don't get how people can say "I don't care" about this. It's not like a pop star falling over, or a new royal cunt fart.
This shakes the fabric of everything we know. Literally!
We might have racism all wrong.

The dress. The one I posted. Is blue and black.
Fucks wrong with you people?

[small_world]

Ah, also, in the background. On the top image of the blue dress, in the background, it looks like a shop changing room.
The main colour is a light sand, like laminate flooring, or similar. There's a security tag on the side of the dress.

On the 'negative', everything looks like a negative and there isn't much of a difference in any of the colours of the background. There are some magentas and aquamarines that you wouldn't normally see except in a negative.


On the photo a few posts back, it's a blue and black dress on top of the same dress, which is also blue and black.
It doesn't 'blend in' chameleon like, but it's certainly not a blue and black dress lying on anything white and gold.