Been looking at this on and off yesterday and today on my phone and my laptop. I always see gold and white with a slight blue tint. Can't see the black and blue even after looking at the altered pics.
With color sampling, it turns out it really is gold and blue-tinted white. So that is what it actually is (the picture that is, not the actual dress). Those black and blue people must have weak minds that are easily deceived by context. The flip floppers probably have some brain defect. The gold and white people see it as it actually is. We are superior.
Actually saying just white or maybe a light blue tint is really strange when the actual color is very similar to the Anandtech forums colors, you know the color of the bar above your very posts, the bar on top of the pages etc...
As a reference, using RGB values extracted from a screenshot and this very site:
some forums colors:
Code:
RED 98 128
GREEN 149 167
BLUE 200 200
three values for the dress:
Code:
RED 128 124 157
GREEN 128 135 171
BLUE 160 164 223
(last set is from the whitest spot I see in the light blue color)
Hope you get the idea. For comparison the color of the quote posts or the area that displays your username is 225 228 242 yet i still see the light blue tint in that, so a larger difference in values like the sets above makes it clearly apper blue to me.
About the gold argument instead... well the color is goldish above but below the RGB shows some kind of dark gray or brown, not much space for golden color like the inverted colors image has.
Really just try and invert the colors in paint to see a real gold and white version.