Gold Blue Quinceanera Dresses Elegant Sweet 16 Gowns The actual dress was black and blue. The confusion came from how lighting and color perception tricked people's brains, making some see it as white and gold. It became a viral example 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 The Dress. Is it blue and black or white and gold? Here is the confirmed answer.