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It's a black and blue dress that looks white and gold in washed out sunlight.
It turns out that some materials play with light in ways that seem unexpected, and our rigid definitions of color don't always fit well around them.
That's a perfect demonstration. Shame I didn't see this back when all the fuss was being made about it...