There are some pretty good reviews for the dress at http://www.amazon.co.uk/Roman-Women...dp/B00SJEUCWU?tag=jusjar05-20#customerReviews -
Robbed a bank in this dress. Nobody could agree on a proper description of me. Sketch artist's head exploded. Got away. Fantastic.
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The good: Works equally well as formal or business casual attire.
The bad: Carves a crooked path through perceptual reality and leaves behind it a wake of confusion and existential crises. Also unforgiving on the hips.
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As an eye doctor, I placed this dress on display outside my office, and business went through the roof!
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This dress made me realize that reality is a meaningless fiction and all of life is merely a grand cosmic suggestion. I returned it and got something cuter.
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A dress you can be both married (white+gold) and buried (black+blue) in. Highly recommended.
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This dress has seen the rise and fall of empires. Father and son pitted against one another in fierce battle, driven mad by the mystery surrounding it. Much more so than the mighty empire that inspired its namesake, this dress is truly an unbeatable force, against whom no man-made civilisation may ever be adequately fortified.
Not too long ago I myself thought, in the height of foolishness, that I might seek out such a power and attempt to capture it for my own. I will not attempt to communicate to you the indescribable terror of the events that ensued from such naïvety, as their just descriptors lie immeasurably far outside the grasp of man's language and comprehension alike, suffice it to say that the ancient poets have penned epic upon epic detailing the consequences of such hubris, but I have failed to learn from them. I was once a noble knight, oft preceded by tales of my might and valour. Now I am but a mere peasant, unfit to wield even a dagger.
Some say this dress is of The Almighty Himself - a gift meant to reward one with unquantifiable strength and wealth. Others say it is an omen - a sign that our days of prosperity and gaiety are approaching a swift and bitter end. Others still, contend it is nothing more than the creation of a mad god who, in search of morbid amusement, cruelly passed it onto man simply to delight in the chaos and bloodshed that would ensue as nation upon nation crumbled in its wake.
I am not a philosopher, nor a theologian - in the days preceding my encounter with this weapon of such awesome power and unknowable origin, perhaps I could have aspired to such a title but alas, now I am barely fit to call myself a man - but a vessel, now fit only to pass on the tale of this... thing. This wonderful, mighty, horrible thing that has mysteriously and spontaneously echoed out from the Æther and found its way into our humble, trembling existence. Yet, reduced and flawed as I am, the one thing keeping me going - the one remaining "calling" holding my spirit and body together as one - is to deliver this warning: Tempt yourself not with its allure, brave young man, for you could one day end up just as the broken soul before you.
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I bought my wife this white and gold dress, only to have her tell me she sees it as blue and black. Beginning to wonder if I paid too much for her wedding ring.
It was white and gold for me. Showed it to my wife, she said blue and black. Asked my 22 month old what color it was, she said "blue."
For me, it was still white and gold. Then I saw the picture of the lady wearing it at the wedding side-by-side with the original here http://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanhatesthis/dress-doxed#.dtMJpzqQ6
and the white changed to a weird blue color and I can't get it to change back. The crazy part is I opened that link, saw it as white/gold, then scrolled down to the comparison pic, and it changed, and when I scrolled back up it was light blue. Now on my phone too I see it as light blue. That is blowing my mind. It was very plainly white and gold to me earlier, and now it's light blue and I can't get it to change back. That is what's so interesting about it to me. Why did my perception change instantly, and why can't I change it back?
Came here to post that :thumbsup:After listening to this all morning after the girlfriend keep asking me about it last night (saw blue and black but she saw gold and white so I must be wrong.. look again..) I have to agree with the Oatmeal.
After listening to this all morning after the girlfriend keep asking me about it last night (saw blue and black but she saw gold and white so I must be wrong.. look again..) I have to agree with the Oatmeal.
That's interesting to me. The white/gold side is what the original picture always looks like for me.Tho I'm still seeing blue/black in the original pic, this is the first example I've seen that helps me visualize what the white-holders are seeing:
That's cool.Young People Are Far More Likely To Think The Dress Is White And Gold
So, I got that going for me... which is nice.
Young People Are Far More Likely To Think The Dress Is White And Gold
So, I got that going for me... which is nice.
If that were true then one person wouldn't be able to see both the white/gold and the blue/brown on the same monitor.I wouldn't be surprised if this is really a case of people having bad monitors and/or bad color calibration.
It's definitely white and gold. There's a tint to the white but it's very subtle.
If that were true then one person wouldn't be able to see both the white/gold and the blue/brown on the same monitor.
Or two people on the same monitor seeing two different things for that matter.