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01#THE DRESS

An internet meme in 2015 in which people saw a digital photo of a two-color dress as either blue and black or white and gold

The photo of the dress became an internet sensation because it appeared to have different colors to different people at different times. The original digital image was taken by Cecilia Bleasdale of Scotland and showed a dress she intended to wear at her daughter’s wedding. Very quickly it emerged that people disagreed about whether the dress was blue and black or white and gold. The image found its way onto the Tumblr page of New York magazine’s BuzzFeed and attracted more than 10 million tweets within a ...

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