The dress that broke the internet: Blue and black or white and gold?

Recently, you may have heard of the dress that’s got everyone questioning their colour vision. Splashed all over the internet, the current trend is to decipher whether it is a combination of blue and black or bizarrely, white and gold.

Social media users have been divided over one half’s insistence that it is quite clearly blue material with black detailed stitching, yet somehow the other half are adamant that they can see heavenly hues of angelic white and divine gold. Teams have even been created for each opposing side – Blue and Black versus White and Gold.

The debate has caused such a stir that it has reached celebrity territory, with singer Taylor Swift seeing black and blue and actress Anna Kendrick insisting that its white and gold.

The main question undoubtedly is, what is causing such a colour split? Are some of us colour blind and don’t even realise it?

Let me tell you a secret – the original dress has indeed been confirmed as blue and black. Scientific explanations have attempted to explain why no one can agree on the colour – it is all to do with the context of the dress and the lighting in which our eyes view it.