It’s the dress all over again! Mother claims she bought a grey bath mat from Aldi that ‘turned lilac’ the same day – but what colour do YOU think it is?
- Mother sparked debate after asking whether her bathroom rug was grey or lilac
- Aislinn James, from Australia, took to Facebook group ALDI Mums to reveal how she bought a light grey bathroom mat set from ALDI
- Said she noticed in the evening that it had ‘turned purple’ and asked advice
A mother has sparked a fierce debate online after asking whether her bathroom rug is grey or lilac.
Aislinn James, from Australia, took to Facebook group ALDI Mums to reveal how she bought a light grey bathroom mat set from ALDI, before noticing in the evening that it had ‘turned purple’.
Explaining that the set appeared to change colour according to what light it is in, she asked whether she was ‘completely crazy’, and was inundated from responses from followers debating the colour of the rugs.
Aislinn James, from Australia, took to Facebook group ALDI Mums to reveal how she bought a light grey bathroom mat set from ALDI, before noticing in the evening that it had ‘turned purple’
Taking to Facebook, the exasperated mother shared a picture of the rug in natural and artificial light and wrote: ‘Please help… I swear I purchased a light grey bath mat set from Aldi today $9.99, got them home put them in the main bathroom, still looking a lovely light grey.
‘Tonight my husband comes in and says why to I have purple bath mats in my bathroom…. checked it out and the dam things are now purple!’
She added: ‘I swear I purchased light grey bath mat set…. so can anyone clarify if I’m completely crazy or if these mats change colour in natural vs artificial light? P.S not happy at all with our definilty purple bath mats.’ [sic]’
Taking to Facebook, the exasperated mother shared a picture of the rug in natural and artificial light
Explaining that the set appeared to change according to what light it is in, she asked whether she was ‘completely crazy’, and was inundated from responses from followers debating the colour of the rugs
Joking that this was like the 2015 optical illusion dress, one user wrote: ‘This is the blue/gold dress all over again. I see grey!’.
Another revealed how they had experienced the same thing with the set, writing: ‘I went to buy the teal ones & my 19yr old daughter n I had a disagreement for a good 5mins about that mat as I said it was grey & she was adamant it was purple. So to see this makes me laugh.’
Meanwhile on shopoper added: ‘I saw them in-store and thought they looked purple so I didn’t buy them as I wanted grey, I was disappointed’.
And other explained: ‘Maybe the tiles bring out the mauve colour of the grey bath mat against your lovely nice grey tiles, as they have different hues.’
ALDI has confirmed to news.com.au that the rugs were likely to be a shade called ‘lilac grey’.
Back in 2015, the infamous ‘dress’ divided internet users, who simply could not agree over whether it was black and blue or gold and white – with Kim Kardashian and Taylor Swift joining in on the debate.
Back in 2015, the infamous ‘dress’ divided internet users, who simply could not agree over whether it was black and blue or gold and white