I just covered up the side edges of the picture with my hands, covering up the bright background and the coat, and I can see dark blue and brown now. It depends on how your eyes are collecting the light.
I messed with all sorts of highlights, lowlights, contrast, whatever. And I even changed it here to darker;
It's still a white and gold dress. The white is now just whiter. And the gold is golder.
This one is blue and black. The OP is still white and gold.
This is fascinating.
eta- Oh my goodness! If I just see the top third on my screen, it's the dirty white. When I continue to scroll down, it transforms to blue and black. Ha!
"You. You and your crazy life. You and your geographic anomaly. You and your drunken lesbianic ways and terrible navigational skills." - ProfArt and her holy baby
So, I see white and gold. My husband sees blue and gold. He just pulled it up in Photoshop and did a color match thing and it clearly shows blue. I don't know- maybe Photoshop is picking up on the shadows? The dress still looks white and gold to me.
Can everyone see this? I think what you see simply depends on how bright your monitor and/or room is.
How come I saw it as white gold first, left the room and then came back and saw black and blue. My monitor didn't change at all. And my pics didn't look like what you have copied here. My black and blue definitely isn't as dark. Weird!
LOLOLOL the one miso posted is the initial image - with exposure brought way up on the left and exposure brought way down on the right.
It's not trickery - it's just an exaggeration of what you may see if you're brightness and calibration is higher/lower than the original image. To show how other people are potentially seeing the different colors.
So that's why 2 people looking at the same image see different things? I saw white and gold, then blue and black after I left the room for awhile. When I came back and asked the person I'm with what they saw, they saw white and gold while i was also looking and saw blue and black.