Blue and black? White and gold? For the company behind the chromatically ambiguous dress that went viral on Friday morning, it’s all green.
While social media users argue if #thedress is blue and black or white and gold, the British clothing company behind the suddenly famous frock is reaping the benefits of the Internet’s befuddlement.
FACTS:
#TheDress is blue & black.
Senate Democrats are blocking Security funding to protect president’s #immigration overreach.
— Speaker John Boehner (@SpeakerBoehner) February 27, 2015I don't understand this odd dress debate and I feel like it's a trick somehow.
I'm confused and scared.
PS it's OBVIOUSLY BLUE AND BLACK
— Taylor Swift (@taylorswift13) February 27, 2015Ian Johnson, creative manager for Birmingham-based Roman Originals, characterized the dress as a “good seller” ordinarily, with an average of about a hundred a week selling through the company’s online and brick-and-mortar channels. The company started selling the dress in November of 2014.
The spotlight of viral fame has heated up sales considerably.
“We’re vastly over where we’d be normally,” Johnson said. “This is looking like a good black Friday.” It took only half an hour for the 300 dresses on Roman Originals’ site to sell out on Friday morning. “Our website’s currently at about a million visits to this page alone,” Johnson said.
The company was able to track down additional inventory and is still fulfilling orders, at least for now, he said. “We can guarantee that we’ll make it through the day. The weekend, we’ll have to see.”
Aside from a surge of demand for the original blue and black dress (yes, that’s the real color combination), Johnson said Roman Originals has been inundated with calls from people who want a white and gold version, as the dress appeared to many online.
“We’re getting calls constantly — about 150 calls in the last 45 minutes,” Johnson said. He said the company was trying to figure out how quickly it could turn out the Internet-inspired version of the dress, estimating that turnaround time could be a matter of weeks if production is given the go-ahead. “We’re currently looking into it,” he said. This post originally appeared on NBCNews.com. #TheDress debate is taking the internet by storm (and ruining friendships!): http://t.co/2cxvjUBkCj pic.twitter.com/XKQB0A9u10 We can confirm #TheDress is blue and black! We should know! http://t.co/qAeIIHzJxk pic.twitter.com/kkxjUbmgI3
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