The best way to develop a sense of style is to do it yourself. Whether it’s sewing on a button to make a blazer preppy or hot gluing studs on a leather jacket to add an edgy effect, DIY-ing is just all-around cheaper rather than buying an entirely new piece of clothing.

Rather than spending hundreds of dollars on the newest pair of acid wash denim, bleach your plain denim like you would tye-dye and, voila, a new piece of couture has landed in your closet.

Sophomore Maddie Collier did this to her Abercrombie jeans.

“I thought they were too plain,” said Collier.

Collier says she took household bleach, watered it down, tied the denim up with rubber bands in different sections of the legs and dipped it in bleach. She let it dry for a few hours and afterwards, took off the rubber bands and witnessed the new pattern she had just made.

“It looked really cool when it was done and much easier than having to buy a new pair,” she added.

Dyeing denim is just the beginning of a variety of things that can be done for a fresh new look on something that’s been kept for a while.