What the Blue Black White Gold Dress Tells Us About How We View Color Jerry's Artarama Yall remember.The Dress? Its been 10 years since group chats across the globe exploded in black and blue vs gold and white controversy, and were here to set things straight. Its time for a lesson Doctor of optometry explains the great dress debate AOA 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