"My brother is literally COLORBLIND and he could see that it was blue."
Red/Green colorblind?
"... but WHITE? How stupid can you be to see THAT MUCH blue and think "Oh, that must just be cuz it's in shade duhurr." I don't care how much shade something is in, shade doesn't add colors that aren't there."
It's more about what they saw, not what's actually there, and it does sort of look like a plastic-y gunmetal grey combination of blue-grey and slate grey. If they're focusing on the focal point of the blue that's seven horizontal rows (or the bushy sleeve) the RGB code has blue only 20 to 30ish degrees away from it's green color while the amount of red that mutes it is only another 10 to 20 further (around R133 G148 B184). By itself it could look like how white would look if covered in a dark blue shadow... maybe.
I don't know, I saw blue/black first, but I'm figuring if less sensitive to hues or less capable of making compensatory leaps it might throw some off. Technically our seeing it as blue/black is us filling in the blanks as is.
"Either way, the dress is blue and black, now we can all stop talking about this utterly pointless shit."
You could have saved time and looked up the actual dress. Besides, it's more about how people first see it that's showing variation, like how people normally respond to "optical illusion" cases, not accuracy. Without a cross reference people are more likely to go with what they first saw. 
It's fucking blue with black and anyone who says otherwise is wrong.
I took the picture and put it into my art/photoediting program and fiddled with the levels, not touching the hue once, and brought forward/intensified the colors that are IN the picture ITSELF.
Afterward, I attempted to make the dress it's original color and then, after that, I failed an attempt to MAKE the dress gold and white. It was impossible to pull it off without making it look like shit and it was gonna stay that way unless I decided to invest forever adjusting each individual part (not gonna happen).
Black, especially in cloth, is usually just a REALLY dark green or brown, depending on the item, and this will show in different lighting unless the item is brand new and heavily dyed and/or on certain fabrics. This is easily verified when black clothing fades, it usually ends up looking bronze-ish. ESPECIALLY sun-faded things (washing eventually does it too, but the sun fades fabric faster and less evenly)
People are getting dumber, that's all there is to it. Alternately, I guess, they're getting dumber AND a bunch of b-tards decided to troll everyone and started this whole thing by claiming the dress is gold and white to fuck with people and then a bunch of idiots just followed the herd until we have this shit where it is today. Those can be the only reasons that so many people give a fuck the color of some random ass dress. I wish the person who took the original (or a person who works at this store) would just take more pictures of the damn thing from different angles so that people can move on with their damn lives...
Either way, the dress is blue and black, now we can all stop talking about this utterly pointless shit.
Dick,
To keep it simples, you gotta kiss goodbye to your ego and its subjective baggage, and only then you'll see the shapes and colours of the world in its full glory.
Itsa neat trick my Ma teachered me at a young age, while gawking at some romanesque shit or other.
Tepid,
Aunt Cunt Mike
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Dang, the more ignorant you can be on a blank white sheet of paper the better you learn to see.
Don't tell me about the Horror Of The White Sheet Of Paper :O
And all the screwery one has to fill it up with for selling it to the gallery.
by wooster
by GrandpaIf I see it as white and bronze, that stuff might as well be white and bronze.
Blissful.
The big picture is our eyes evolved to see the world for the simple purpose of seeing it a certain way.
^ That sentence of yours is a clusterfuck of oxymorons, granpa.
Wooster,
No hangups about loving the world all at once at first glance. When color and shapes are involved, I like to keep it simple. Dang, the more ignorant you can be on a blank white sheet of paper the better you learn to see. And what I meant was our eyes don't see what's there; they see the easiest way for us to understand.
Hate,
Grandpa Dick
Any reference to something you seen bout blank pages is not what I meant. That was my own words there. This is a good example of what I mean. Some here look up every gosh dang word written here, like it has to have been written before. Maybe that's you. Only believing after someone said they seen it.
