Explanation of the Black Blue, White Gold Dress High Latitude Style Remember when the internet went absolutely nuts on the colour of a dress? The dress was blue and black. The original viral poster, Caitlin McNeill, later said it was a black and blue dress White and gold? Or blue and black? Dress sets the Internet ablaze with color debate A decade ago, The Dress united and divided us. It couldn't happen now. Poynter