The dialogue before the switch doesn't offer much insight into why she changed.
I did notice the slightly different dress with definitely different fabric pattern. To me the point of that scene was to clearly define the woman's relationship to her husband - a fawning unequal to her husband. Not that he was a bully or a bad guy, but just that is her role in life. So his lack of perfect enthusiasm for her outfit causes her to change it - but only slightly because her repertoire of possibilities in life is circumscribed. And changing the dress made no difference except to herself - a typical guy wouldn't even notice the difference, based on my experience. It was an amusing scene. If April saw that exchange, she'd be disgusted, probably contemptuous.
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