It’s ‘the dress’ all over again! Newsreader sparks fierce debate after posing in a ‘white’ dress that social media followers insist is BLUE -so which colour do YOU see?
- Australian newsreader has sparked an online debate over the colour of her dress
- Kendall Gilding posed in a white dress, but it appeared blue in an Instagram snap
- Prompted comparisons to the black and blue dress that went viral in 2015
An Australian newsreader has sparked a heated online debate over the colour of her dress, in an echo of the blue and black frock that went viral in 2015.
Channel Seven’s Kendall Gilding shared a snap of her posing in a Ted Baker dress on her Instagram account describing it as the ‘freshest white’.
But the photo left the majority of her fans confused, with dozens commenting to say it looked ‘blue not white’.
The trick-of-the-eye prompted comparisons to the black and blue Roman Originals dress that went viral in 2015, which many people thought looked white and gold.
Do you see white or blue? TV presenter Kendall Gilding has sparked a lively debate on social media after posting a photo of herself wearing what she claims is a ‘white’ dress
It’s white! Kendall later shared this photo of herself sitting at the Seven News desk to confirm the dress was actually white. One eagle-eyed fan suggested it only looked blue in the other pictures because of the blue wall in the background
Sharing the original snap, Kendall wrote: ‘Wednesday in White! Living for this dress – the smooth lines, lapel collar detail, divine fabric, the freshest of white!’
After noticing comments about the dress looking blue, Kendall added: ‘You’re not the first person to say this! I think it must be the low light that we took it in!’
Kendall later shared a second snap of her wearing the dress in the studio, revealing that it is in fact white.
‘For everyone debating whether my dress was white or blue, here’s a photo in the news studio!’ she wrote.
Trick of the light? Kendall’s followers insisted it was actually light blue, raising the possibility that the outfit has an optical illusion effect, like the black and blue Roman Originals dress that went viral in 2015 (pictured)
However some fans still struggled to see the dress as white.
‘It’s still blue to me,’ one person commented, adding a laughing emoji.
‘I was wrong. I said blue!’ another wrote.
One eagle-eyed fan suggested it only looked blue in the other pictures because of the blue wall in the background.
‘Maybe the previous photo was just a reflection off the wall? The wall was blue, right? Either way, a stunning look,’ they wrote.
The two-toned frock that sparked the original debate in 2015 was first posted on Tumblr by Caitlin McNeill, a 21-year-old aspiring singer from Scotland, after noticing her friends saw different colours in the photograph.
The image became an online sensation, with posts arguing over the dress’s original colours – and science behind the debate – being viewed and shared millions of times.
The simple scientific answer behind the debate is that it is an optical illusion.
Objects reflect light at certain wavelengths, or colours, and the human brain determines the colour of an object by taking in its reflected light.
But this perception can be thrown off balance by the colour of nearby objects.
Seeing blue! ‘Definitely blue but beautiful,’ one fan commented. Another agreed: ‘It looks blue’