Black & Gold Check Pants SARTORO This explains how the blue black white gold dress illusion was possible. But it doesn't explain why some people saw it one way and some saw it the other, and no one seemed to see Photo finally solves the black and blue white and gold dress debate Is that dress blue & black or white & gold? Matilda's Lab 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