2 women are behind the viral dress that has everyone confused

Serah Weichel above and Caitlin McNeill

Two women are behind the viral dress that
has everyone confused . Here's what they
told us.
The picture was initially posted on Tumblr
by a 21-year-old singer named Caitlin
McNeill who lives on the tiny Scottish
island of Colonsay.
In a telephone conversation with Business
Insider on Thursday evening, McNeill
explained that the dress in the picture was
worn to her friends' wedding. Some
people see the dress as it appears in the
photo as white and gold, while others see it
as blue and black .
The dress was worn by the bride's mother.
McNeill and her friends first realized
something was different about the dress
when the mother sent her daughter the
now-famous photo.
"What happened was two of my close
friends were actually getting married and
the mother of the bride took a photo of the
dress to send to her daughter," McNeill
said. "When my friend showed the dress
to her fiancé, they disagreed on the color."
The bride then posted the picture on
Facebook, and her friends continued to
debate the color of the dress.
"All of our friends disagreed," McNeill
said.
After seeing the Facebook thread, McNeill
decided to share the picture on a fan page
she has on Tumblr dedicated to a woman
named Sarah Weichel. That was where the
dress went viral.
Weichel is a talent manager who
represents several YouTubers including
Hannah Hart.
Weichel told Business Insider her phone
began blowing up on Thursday after
McNeill's post started going viral.
"The crazy thing is, I actually have nothing
to do with the post," Weichel said. "It's
literally just a fan account of me, so my
name and my photos are all over the
account. I actually don't have anything to
do with it ... But I have been getting a ton
of phone calls and emails tonight."
The situation was even weirder for
Weichel because also on Thursday her
client, Hart, was just announced as the
star of a new television series .
"Between that announcement and the
dress thing my phone has been going
crazy with congratulations and, 'What the
hell is happening?'" Weichel said.
For Weichel, there is no question about
what color the dress is.
"Black and blue of course!" she said.
Weichel put Business Insider in touch with
McNeill, who said one of the oddest parts
of the experience had been watching
celebrities share her picture.
"I thought my followers on Tumblr would
maybe have a good reaction, but I never
would have considered that Taylor Swift
and Mindy Kaling would be tweeting about
it," McNeill said.
Of all the celebrities who became
interested in her post, McNeill would like
to meet Swift.
"Oh my god," she said when we asked
about Swift. "That would be something."
McNeill plays guitar and sings in a band
named Canach that plays what she
described as "traditional Scottish folky
music." Her band played at the wedding.
She actually saw the dress in person and
told us definitively what color it really
was.
"I got to the wedding and the mother was
wearing the dress," McNeill said.
"Obviously it was blue and black."
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