Journalist Spends Saturday in #TheDress

Ko Im pairs black and blue with The Met and New Jersey.

Solid social experiment by Bustle’s Ko Im.

After purchasing that infamous black and blue number (it still retails for under $100), she wore it around Manhattan and New Jersey this past weekend.

Whether you approve of all the fuss, that dress is now firmly entrenched well beyond social media as a modern-day artifact. Check out for example what happened to Im at the Metropolitan Museum of Art:

It’s crazy to think that the design has become so ubiquitous, like a Van Gogh masterpiece hanging on the walls of the museum.

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