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A tweet by the American songwriter Taylor Swift, in which she shared she saw the dress as blue and black and said she was "confused and scared", was retweeted 111,134 times and liked 154,188 times

Friends and co-workers worldwide are debating the true hues of a royal blue dress with black lace that, to many an eye, transforms in one photograph into gold and white

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But while many of us likely have cocktail dresses knocking around our closets, it's rarer to find a ball gown just waiting to be dusted off for your next black tie event

For women, it changes almost nothing

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