ELI5:Why does this dress appear white gold to some people and black blue to others? : r explainlikeimfive Do you remember the viral blue black white gold dress from 2015? No one could agree what color it was, and this got vision neuroscientist Rosa Lafer Sousa thinking about what was going on in our Amanda Seyfried in Alexander McQueen at the Les Misrables New York Premiere Fashion Gone Rogue How "The Dress" Became an Illusion Unlike Any Other Scientific American Three years of research into #thedress, digested BPS