Debbie Does Dress

Roberta Bayley was a 19-year-old freshman at San Francisco State University when she bought a bubble gum pink jersey tank minidress for just over £2 (about $5 at the time) from the catalog of Biba, the London emporium that trafficked in 1930s glamour. When Ms. Bayley moved to New York City in 1975, the Biba…

When the Timing Is Finally Right

Christa Marie Orsino and Marcel Anthony Martino were married Sept. 28 at Lambs Hill, a mountainside events space in Beacon, N.Y. The Rev. Dr. Robert White, a Presbyterian minister, performed the ceremony. The bride, who is 55 and taking her husband’s name, is a vice president in Sugar Loaf, N.Y., for the Citizens Foundation, a…

A Burlesque Reveals More Than Expected

Anika Steinway Chapin and Mohit Narang were married Sept. 28 at Flushing Town Hall, a performance center and events space in Queens. Michael A. Berresse, a friend of the couple who became a Universal Life minister for the event, officiated. Ms. Chapin, 36, is the artistic associate, in Manhattan, at Goodspeed Musicals, a theater company…