Dress - what colour is the dress? White and gold or blue and black

The Dress reached the viral singularity last night, an unstoppable force that trampled all other news in its path.

The media has been quick to turn to science this morning, in a bid to settle the seemingly inexorable debate so we can all have our lives back, but why did no-one think to just ask someone who has actually seen it?

The dress was worn to a Scottish wedding by a bride's mother and posted on Tumblr by 21-year-old singer Caitlin McNeill, who played at the ceremony.

She told Business Insider that she got a good look at it, and is in no doubt over its actual colour.

"I got to the wedding and the mother was wearing the dress," McNeill said. "Obviously it was blue and black."

Source: independent.co.uk