The Dress all over again: What colour is this jacket? The internet can’t agree

One Twitter user posted a photo of her new jacket online but said some of her friends could see white and blue, while she sees black and brown

It's The Dress debacle all over again, but this time an Adidas jacket has seriously divided opinions.

One twitter user, Mariam, posted a photo of her new jacket online but said some of her friends could see white and blue, while she sees black and brown.

Tumblr waded in after her friend, poppunkblogger, shared the picture saying: "I hate to make a new blue/black white/gold dress meme but my friend has this jacket and she says it’s white and blue but i see black and brown pls tell me what you see."

The jacket has started to divide opinion on Twitter.

MY JACKET I BOUGHT IS SO CUTE pic.twitter.com/WpD1FXNK89

— mariam (@ZAYNSMlND) 24 лютого 2016 р.

It comes down that the way that human eyes have evolved to view colour in a world where the main source of light is sunlight.

We see the objects around us because light bounces off them and back onto our retinas.

The brain has learnt to register what colour the actual light source is and then subtract that colour from the actual colour of the object.

So imagine a yellow-y light on a white object — the brain understands that the yellow light is influencing the colour of the surface it’s landing on and will try and ignore it.