A month or so ago I mentioned a photograph from a Paris Vogue editorial that had shown me the light...actually the light and the dark...as it awakened me to the possibilities that tie-dye jeans could provide.
| Now that I've actually tracked down a suitable candidate...in the shape of these Winter Light jeans from Built by Wendy...my frugal inner voice is speaking up and raising the question of whether DIY might not be the way to go. Oddly enough, for all my experiments in that line I have never tied and dyed...and I'm rather wary of tying and bleaching as an initial experience...which probably harkens back to some home hair-dying that I tried. I won't go into detail...let's just say that I ended up with Astroturf green hair...green hands...and mottled green bathroom fixtures. Quite frankly, the mind boggles at what I could accomplish with a bottle of bleach... |  |
I recommend trying DIY with a pair of jeans you don't care about, or do as Em suggests, so you risk little or nothing if the experiment doesn't work.