45.) "or that a fancy, at once so gorgeous and so delicate as must have been requisite to contrive the child’s apparel, was the same that had achieved a task perhaps more difficult, in imparting so distinct a peculiarity to Hester’s simple robe."
Hester is hiding herself in these gray clothes because she thinks that the A is enough public attention. What is weird is that she hides herself behind her clothes but then creates these beautiful colorful dresses for pearl. Hester is trying to fit in with the rest of the town, while Pearl is trying to be herself and there express that. I think that Hester would like to wear colourful dressed and express the real her but she is to worried about the society's judgements about her. Imagine what they would say if she was walking around in bright dresses, with the on her chest.
Remember that Pearl is the outward embodiment of Hester.
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