Science explains how time spent outdoors colors your view of #thedress Los Angeles Times The dress was a viral online phenomenon in 2015, centered on a photograph of a dress that people disagreed on whether it was blue and black or white and gold. Within a The Dress": Why People See White and Gold or Blue and Black 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 Dressgate: If you saw THAT dress as white your brain was working overtime