New fads can also be a source of ideas for young entrepreneurs.
For example, if the thing to do is to wear painted high-top sneakers, maybe young entrepreneurs can paint sneakers for a price. Or if fancy T-shirts are in, maybe they can take advantage of this trend to make some extra money. One young girl capitalized on the popularity of dinosaurs in her school and sold wooden models of them to her classmates. They decided to make their own wild and colorful sweat pants and shorts because they felt that the prices at the local mall were too high. With some help from Josh's mother, the two seventh graders learned how to modify an existing pattern for sweats to make them as baggy as the latest fashions young people were wearing.