Blue Black Or White Gold: What's The Real Color Of 'The Dress'? Remember the viral dress that divided the internet back in 2015? Was it blue and black, or was it white and gold? For the first episode of our brand new podcast, Stor CD729 Blue Black Or White Gold: What's The Real Color Of 'The Dress'? The dress was a 2015 online viral phenomenon centred on a photograph of a dress. Viewers disagreed on whether the dress was blue and black, or white and gold : r wikipedia What color is the dress? Why do some people see blue and black and some people see gold and white when looking at a single image of a dress? : r askscience