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Do those people who see it as black and blue have color blindness of some kind? It's quite clearly brown and blue-gray to me. The eye dropper in Paint.Net says the same thing. Not sure how anyone can get black out of this.

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The black and blue camp is actually closest to what you see. The differing opinion are those who see it as white and gold.

I see black & blue as well .. but apparently not according to gawker ... their poll has white&gold winning it at 76%

http://gawker.com/what-color-is-this-goddamn-dress-168833017...

I saw white and gold the first time I saw the image, and blue and black the second...

I interpret it as black getting colored colored brownish by the camera/lighting. Specifically, if you look on the left you can see another dress which seems to be black/white. And in that area, the lace appears the same color as the black of that dress.

That's exactly it. It's a low-light photo, so colors are distorted. In addition, it looks as though the in the photo is on the yellow/orange side of the spectrum, washing out the blue to make it look white.

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