A White and Gold (No, Blue and Black!) Dress Melts the Internet

The mother of the bride wore white and gold. Or was it blue and black?

From a photograph the bride posted of the dress online, no one could agree. A few days after the wedding last weekend on the Scottish island of Colonsay, a member of the wedding band was so frustrated by the lack of consensus that she posted a picture of the dress on Tumblr, and asked her followers for feedback.

“I was just looking for an answer because it was messing with my head,” said Caitlin McNeill, a 21-year-old singer and guitarist.

At one point, she added, the notifications on her Tumblr page were streaming in so furiously that her phone almost burned itself out in the palm of her hand. “I turned it off and let it cool down for a while, and it was fine,” she said.

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The New York Times