a closeup of Shelley
from a pic for Seventeen mag, 1965
Shelley was discovered by A&P supermarket heir and publisher Huntington Hartford at a debutante ball when she was just 14 years old. "A guy kept bothering me," Shelley said, "He kept coming up to ask, 'Have you ever thought of being a model?'" After careful consideration, and with the help of her mother, a former Conover model, she finally decided it was a better summer job than waitressing. So Shelley and her mom went to went to New York to see Eileen Ford (a friend of her mother's) for representation. On November of 1964, her face appeared simultaneously on the covers of both Seventeen and Glamour magazines. For more, check out: Seventeen Cover and First Cover
Shelley in a spread for Seventeen mag, 1965
Shelley appeared in the August 1965 issue of Seventeen magazine... in the spread called "A Yearbook of Hairdos." It featured the latest teen hairdos, as worn by the different types of teens in school - like the President of the Folk Music Club, the Senior Prom Queen, the Lead in the Class Play, etc. Shelley's hairdo was the one usually sported by the Class President. It was a smooth, neatly-combed side-parted bob with the ends flipped out. A pair of baby-blue bows spiced up her classically simple hairdo. And Shelley made one super chic-looking class president. Also, among the models with Shelley on the spread were Colleen Corby and Jennifer O'Neill.
a closeup of Shelley
from a spread for Seventeen mag, 1965
