The Dress - what colour is it?

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Most items of clothing have only one colour. Maybe two if they're spotted or striped. Maybe they're tie-dye. But this dress can mysteriously change colour.


This Dress, on the evening of 26th February 2015, was posted to Tumblr. So a picture of a washed out dress. 


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Well, well... Looks like it's white and yellow, doesn't it? Well no. It's black and blue! Is it? Uh... OK?


So then everybody fought. Is that dress white and yellow, or blue and black? So then they take it to the twittering birds site. Twitter. After the first week alone, 8 million tweets. After the second week, 24 million tweets, after the third, 30 million tweets, all with the hashtags #thedress, #dressgate  #whiteandgold or #blueandblack. 


A Scottish girl, meanwhile, was getting married. She posted a picture online of the dress her mother wanted to wear to the wedding. The couple disagreed. Was that dress white with gold lace, or blue with black lace. So did their Facebook friends. Was it white and gold, or blue and black?


In the afternoon of 27th, the image went viral. The Washington Post, BuzzFeed, CNN, Time, Channel 9 Australia, and more mentioned it, so too it was mentioned by celebrities such as Taylor Swift, Demi Lovato and Frankie Muniz (all of which claimed they see the dress as blue and black).


The dress was later confirmed to be a lace dress by Roman Originals, so it became really popular as a result  It sold out in 24 hours. 


Scientifically it was more interesting. They discovered that some people's brains were detecting black and blue, some saw white and yellow. About 10% of people (including myself) saw it change colour. Some even saw it as blue and brown. So?


Each year has an impact on the world. 2015? Will be known as the Year of the Dress.

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