What is the significance of the pink ribbons in this story?

We associate the pink
ribbons with Faith, Goodman Brown's young wife, whose innocence and devout character are seemed
to be represented in part by the colour of her ribbons. I think potentially that the falling to
the ground of these ribbons can symbolise one of the themes of the story, which is the fact that
we are all sinners - none of us are so good as to avoid the taint of sin on our lives entirely.
It is clear that at the beginning of the story Goodman Brown idolises his wife, and yet the
'dream' he has in the forest causes him to doubt his impressions of her. It is this 'fall' from
the pedestal that he has put her on that is symbolised by the fall of the
ribbons.