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"If you imagine your eyes and brain are like a camera, it might set to the setting of outdoor and then it processes the visual information in one way - or it might be set to indoor and then it processes information in a different way," explains Marie Rogers, who researches cognition and colour perception at the University of Sussex

Guests at the wedding could not understand why, in one photo of the dress being worn by the mother of the bride, the clearly blue and black-striped garment transformed into gold and white

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A simple, well-executed outfit is always going to be more effective than something over the top

Maybe not the shoes, but definitely the dress. The fun thing about a black dress is that you can make it super subversive, says Young, who points to Marc Jacobss brilliant Fall 2023 collection of tiny little black dresses with exposed bra cups and micro bubble hems