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If you change the color of the background, the dress looks entirely different (even though its the exact same dress): Williams notes that the best way to tell the true color of the dress would be to photograph it against a rich background of objects illuminated in the same way as the dress. But this dress explanation still leaves a huge mystery The problem is that we still havent explained a key mystery of this dress business

The tea-length hem, hovering between the knee and mid-calf, reads as polished and faintly vintage in the best way

She wore baggy, low-rise, camouflage cargo pants that exposed the band of her underwear, and she completed the look with spiky wristbands

Like flannel button-downs were to Seattle grunge bands, the slip dress became the feminine answer to an era that stripped down the shoulder-padded artifice of the previous decade

Comes with a belt

The lighting in the photo is what caused the optical illusion and sparked the viral moment, with even scientists weighing in on the conversation with theories about why people were seeing different colours