#Thedress: ‘It's been quite stressful having to deal with it ... we had a falling-out’

Was it black and blue or white and gold? The internet was divided but for Cecilia Bleasdale, who bought the dress for her daughter's wedding, going viral left her confused - and caused family friction

In a small village in Lancashire, in an upstairs wardrobe, in a Roman Originals bag, still with its receipt, lies The Dress. Which dress? Like you need to ask. When Twitter released its list of the most influential moments of 2015, only big political events, the Women's World Cup and humanity's first trip to Pluto were ranked ahead of the dress that Cecilia Bleasdale bought to wear at her daughter's Grace's wedding. Was it #blueandblack or was it #whiteandgold? For a few days in late February and early March, millions of people, perhaps hundreds of millions, including Taylor Swift, Kanye West and Kim Kardashian, all had an opinion.

"I'm not a very public person," Bleasdale says now. "I'm not a blogger or anything like that. So it's been quite stressful having to deal with it and thinking, What's going to happen next?" Most people still don't know what happened to begin with.