1970s Ronald Amey Pale Pastel Print Dress w Silver & Gold Metallic Det Shrimpton Couture Eleven years ago today, an image of a dress posted on Tumblr, a social networking platform, ignited a global online debate over whether it was white and gold or blue and black. Alfred Loudet Alfred LOUDET (Montlimar 1836 Paris 1898) Portrait of a young girl in a white dress On its original canvas 47 x 38 cm Signed and localized lower right Alfred Loudet Paris (1836) MutualArt The White and Gold (No, Blue and Black!) Dress That Melted the Internet The New York Times I've never understood the white gold side of the dress illusion but after modifying someone else's picture to make this one I can (kind of) see it. : r opticalillusions