I See White and Gold, but the Dress Taught Me How We Shape Our Own Reality by Shaant A Culturated Medium The Dress: Black and Blue or White and Gold? 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 The dress turned 11 and it's STILL white and gold PERIOD. Eleven years later the color swatches are right there and people who see blue and black are proving your eyes lie