Meet the Dapper Orlando leadership team!
Andrea Roberts
Founder & President
Andrea was born in California and moved to Florida just before turning nine years old. She loves that living here in the Sunshine State offers so many opportunities to dress (well, aside from the humidity). Her mother was her earliest fashion inspiration, teaching her the very important lesson that a hat, purse, shoes, and gloves should always match or at least beautifully coordinate. Andrea gives thanks to the Lord for blessing her with many talents, including sewing, crafting, culinary skills, and more. It has truly been a joy for Andrea to witness friendships blossom here at Dapper Orlando and to experience the love and camaraderie shared within our community.
Lourdes Bonilla Acevedo
Vice President
Lourdes was born in New York and later moved to Puerto Rico at the tender age of twelve. As a teenager, she discovered a deep passion for fashion and spent her years on the island experimenting with creating looks that expressed her unique sense of style.
After Hurricane Maria forever changed the course of their lives, Lourdes and her family and I relocated to Florida. She attended my first Dapper Day weekend in Spring 2023 and had a wonderful time alongside her sister, Mildred. Lourdes was also present for the very first Dapper Orlando gathering and now proudly serves as a member of its Leadership Team.
Lourdes loves the thrill of the hunt—finding just the right pieces and transforming them into a polished, fashionable ensemble. She embraces the challenge of dappering on a budget and takes take great joy in teaching others how to do the same.
Jim Stamberger
Mayor
Jim started his Dapper journey in Kansas City, Missouri. As a producer, director and actor, he found all sorts of incredible opportunities to design costumes, shows, reviews, feasts, festivals, historical coronations, and a myriad of cotillions, parties, and balls. For nearly 20 years, Jim felt privileged to create a variety of stories and shows, filling the lanes with colorful characters such as beggars, fooles, bardes, magicians and kings for the local renaissance festival. Jim has also directed many community theater productions, produced events for historical homes across Missouri, and created legendary Halloween festivities.
In December 2017, Jim relocated to Central Florida and attended my first Dapper event shortly after. He attended the second ever of Dapper Orlando. Too nervous to come on his own, dragged a dear friend along with him that day. Much to Jim’s surprise, he truly discovered his tribe that day, and has been a fixture in the group ever since.
Jim’s dapper looks are iconic within the local dapper community. He says that every look he creates is all about detail, and he is proud of now having quite the closet full of options ready to wear and/or reinvent.
Billie Shoemaker
Coordinator
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Naomi Bell
Coordinator
Naomi was raised in Southern California and Oregon with a brother and three sisters on the west coast. She has long been a creative soul who loves to sing, act, dance, write, design clothes, and bake. She is has been a scout leader for 30+ years and has a deep love for all things whimsical and glitter drenched. She has been a Disney girl at heart her entire life and only makes sense that she would be married to someone that is as well, her husband John. They have two beautiful adult kids, Savannah and Ethan, who keep their lives full of joy. They have been dappering together since moving to Florida in 2017. Naomi is a nurse for the Dept of Veterans Affairs and is always ready to lend a hand.
John Bell
Coordinator
John was raised in Southern California with three brothers that all shared a love for the outdoors and Disney! An artistic soul that loves crafting, gardening, cooking, being in the outdoors, he can undoubtedly be found with a delicious draft in hand and a bright smile to match. He began dappering with his lovely wife Naomi in 2017 after moving to Florida in order for John to work for the Mouse himself. He loves working in resort reservations and helping to create magical vacations for people all across the world. His joy is only matched by his love of being a dad to two wonderful adult kids, Savannah and Ethan, the apples of his eye. And don’t get him started about trains…
Suzanne Clark
Coordinator
Suzanne has been a member of Dapper Orlando since May 2024. Her love for dressing up started at a very young age as her Mom and Aunt would always sew her clothes and Halloween costumes. Suzanne and her husband made the move to Florida from Rochester, NY in 2019 and she’s been enjoying family, friends and Disney ever since.
As a retired financial controller for Xerox corporation, Suzanne can now focus on volunteering and spreading love and joy to all around her. In addition to Dapper Orlando, she is a part of the character program at Give Kids the World, Costumers for a Cause, and reading for East Lake Elementary as various characters. She is looking forward to meeting you at an upcoming Dapper Orlando event!
Annette Marchant
Coordinator
Annette Marchant was raised in the Midwest, where she started learning to sew by making doll clothes. With the help of 4H, she moved up to making her own clothes, showing the finished garments at both the county fair and the Illinois State fair. Her mother and grandmothers were also instrumental on her on her sewing journey.
Happily married to her high school sweetheart, Annette and her husband enjoy collecting vintage cars together. They raised two boys, a foster son and a bonus daughter. She has previously worked as a children’s librarian, children’s minister and preschool teacher. Now she is enjoying her second act working in finance with her husband along with being are semi-retired.
Annette has always been interested in vintage fashion, including collecting and making garments and hats from the 50’s. Discovering Dapper Day in 2015, a whole new world of Vintage Dapper was opened up! Blessed to find Dapper Orlando in 2023, she was thrilled to find like-minded friends who enjoy dressing up, taking pictures, and finding good food to eat!
Annette’s areas of expertise are vintage and reproduction Dapper fashion, as well as sewing garments and upcycling retro fabrics. Her secret talent is usually knowing where the to find the best bathrooms in Disney.
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