CAROLE OF MANY HATS...

The American Bandstand Regulars went on in life to wear more hats than that of "dancer" or "Regular" on American Bandstand. Since those days in the sun on the show were short-lived for many, they like all the rest of us, had to move on and have other dimensions to their lives. Carole Scaldeferri is one of those young ladies who went on through life to wear many hats and I had some fun today with very limited editing skills to put her in to a vintage 58 hat and suit (using her graduation picture as a base). Many of us love playing with paperdolls to dress them up or down as our fancy suits us, so I had a paperdoll kind of day.

Carole would look pretty in any hat or outfit, but I chose this colorful one and did some "painting" in of the scarf because the original didn't view well. Someone wanted to teach me photoshop and I have the software, but it is much more complicated and so I used limited tools to create this little bit of "fluff fun" for the day. The many hats that Carole has worn have not all been of the fabric and flowers kind.

Famous Dancer/Regular on 50s/60s American Bandstand

Magazine Newsletter writer

Model

Secretary and manager who hired other secretaries

Realtor

Wife

Mother

Grandmother

So Carole has been one busy lady in her life and she has been admired for her tenacity to stay with things when they got difficult and to remain a friend to many through her life. She has been loved for all these reasons and her life is a full one. It runs in the family, as her cousin Diana has also worn many hats and had a full life. I will see what I can do for her on my next "fluffy fun" time when one just gets silly and goes back to their paperdoll days. I think that is one reason we loved the vintage 16 Magazines so much. Their covers were fun and they would put those big heads on stick bodies, on roller coasters and in swimming pools and on cars. So it's nothing new to just have fun...we have been doing it for decades.