Picture Of Viral Blue And Black Dress Also Shows White And Gold, And Twitter Is Arguing Over It Again Evie Magazine The Dress: Black and Blue or White and Gold? How I Flipped My Brain's View of the Black and Blue Dress Jeff Greenhouse Blue Ivy Carter Wears Gold Ball Gown and Minidress at 'Mufasa' Premiere The actual dress was black and blue. The confusion came from how lighting and color perception tricked people's brains, making some see it as white and gold. It became a viral example TheDress couple: 'we were completely left out from the story' BBC News