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Purse color & jewelry tip: pick a contrasting purse for this blue-on-blue combo

"This particular image (of the dress) doesn't have enough cues in the image itself to tell you what the color of the light is, so you have to rely on assumptions that your brain is making," Conway said

When you see something, your eyes dont automatically know the color

In the image as presented on, say, BuzzFeed, Photoshop tells us that the places some people see as blue do indeed track as blue

Several papers made a stab at it, some even splashing altered pictures of the dress on the front page

You have in your head an internal model of what the colors of the world are, and that helps you resolve ambiguities, Conway said