Sherri Hill 54912 Dress Sherri Hill Dresses Formal Approach I See White and Gold, but the Dress Taught Me How We Shape Our Own Reality by Shaant A Culturated Medium 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 Was the dress gold and white or blue and black? NSF U.S. National Science Foundation Optical illusion: Dress colour debate goes global BBC News