Chapter 5
Hester also made clothes for wealthy people who were able to pay for it. She made everything except wedding dresses. She wasn't allowed to make it because it because a wedding dress is something you use when you are getting married, and she did something that is forbidden in marriage. In fact adultery. Even though she was a very talented dress maker, people wouldn't wear a wedding dress because of the sinn she had done. I think the reason might be that they think that some of her "bad soul" would transfer over to the dress and make their marriage bad.
Chapter 1
9 years ago
Yes - aren't the "wedding" dresses strange? Someone getting married is suppose to be PURE - and yes, they're scared that Hester will taint them. It says more about the society than it does Hester.
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