Its a Fashion Scam! It MUST be!!!
Everyone is talking about a dress that appears differently to certain people. The dress is supposed to be black and blue but appears as gold and white. To some people.
When I heard about this - on BBC news - I saw the dress as pale blue and a kind of dirty brown. I thought - eww that looks horrid! Later in the item they showed a (very happy) designer who explained that the dress is supposed to be dark blue and black.
When I looked up some other photos of the dress they all seemed very white and the dirty brown sort of more a gold shade, I'll give them that. BUT, I did also see the dress (thanks to the wonders of television!) as dark blue and black.
Given the wonders of imagery that abound now why not a dress that appears differently? A whiff of Photoshop and yes, the dress is in negative colours! Or is it? Is it our varying rods and cones? The designer chose those exact shades of blue and black (yes, there are shades of black where absolute black is not a shade you ever want to see or it is a shade you want to see when trying to buy a decent pair of trousers that match your still-viable suit jacket for job interviews).
ITS ALL PIFFLE!!!
The bloody happy looking designer grinning at the controversy told me all I needed to know. She knew all along. Even the worst magicians have better game faces. Can you imagine Dynamo/Copperfield/Daniels[insert fave name here] announcing the secret of his latest trick before he performs it?
The fabric might be interesting. If it is, I'm interested. If all it does is look white sometimes I am not interested. I'm especially not interested if it looks like a horrible faded blue that only was nice in the 30's and even then wasn't popular but looks fabulous to one person who happened to to die in some tragic accident.
I do get the horrible feeling this is some experiment and we are the unwitting mice in the maze. Anything is these days, I suppose, but this seems more contrived than many other social experiments conducted lately.
Perhaps we do have some secret white/blue black/gold colourblindness on certain fabrics when photographed.
Whatever statement the fashion industry is trying to make I suspect it has been an attention-seeking exercise all along! If its anything else I think the rest of us probably don't care.
When I heard about this - on BBC news - I saw the dress as pale blue and a kind of dirty brown. I thought - eww that looks horrid! Later in the item they showed a (very happy) designer who explained that the dress is supposed to be dark blue and black.
When I looked up some other photos of the dress they all seemed very white and the dirty brown sort of more a gold shade, I'll give them that. BUT, I did also see the dress (thanks to the wonders of television!) as dark blue and black.
Given the wonders of imagery that abound now why not a dress that appears differently? A whiff of Photoshop and yes, the dress is in negative colours! Or is it? Is it our varying rods and cones? The designer chose those exact shades of blue and black (yes, there are shades of black where absolute black is not a shade you ever want to see or it is a shade you want to see when trying to buy a decent pair of trousers that match your still-viable suit jacket for job interviews).
ITS ALL PIFFLE!!!
The bloody happy looking designer grinning at the controversy told me all I needed to know. She knew all along. Even the worst magicians have better game faces. Can you imagine Dynamo/Copperfield/Daniels[insert fave name here] announcing the secret of his latest trick before he performs it?
The fabric might be interesting. If it is, I'm interested. If all it does is look white sometimes I am not interested. I'm especially not interested if it looks like a horrible faded blue that only was nice in the 30's and even then wasn't popular but looks fabulous to one person who happened to to die in some tragic accident.
I do get the horrible feeling this is some experiment and we are the unwitting mice in the maze. Anything is these days, I suppose, but this seems more contrived than many other social experiments conducted lately.
Perhaps we do have some secret white/blue black/gold colourblindness on certain fabrics when photographed.
Whatever statement the fashion industry is trying to make I suspect it has been an attention-seeking exercise all along! If its anything else I think the rest of us probably don't care.