explain the blue and black dress Science Behind the How to See the Dress

A recent piece looking at the 15-year-old meme All Your Base Are Belong to Us described a world where it took months and months for one image to gain meme status on the web

Of course, I also learned the true color of the dress in the intervening time, and my research suggests that people are more likely to switch to the true color of the dress than vice versa

We dubbed this phenomenon SURFPAD ( S ubstantial U ncertainty & R amified/ F orked P riors/ A ssumptions = D isagreement)

"The dress has been enormously instructive for science, the scientific understanding of how color works," he told USA TODAY

Nude undergarments or lining are recommended if needed.