Yeesh...not all representation is good representation, I guess.

Also I'm not seeing that flag, personally. And in fact, looking at the dress more closely I see there are five colors (black, white, light pink, dark pink, teal) but no repeating pattern. Okay, well technically there's a repeating pattern, but it's quite long (D=dark pink, L=light pink):

W T L B
D T L W
B T L W 
D B T L

In a crop of this photo from Getty

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you can see it repeat the first nine colors again, and it just happens that the photo really does capture the last stripe of the dress (confirmed with another Getty photo).

We can also see the colors in a lot higher fidelity compared to the C-SPAN stream which shows that any similarity to was just an artifact of video compression. I'll admit my eye for color isn't the best, but the light pink and blue seem to unambiguously be the shades from . The deep pink looks like the color used in to me, but it's missing the shades of purple and blue and that doesn't explain the black stripes at all.

idk why I got so fixated on this...just neurodivergent stuff, I guess