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Basic fairy tale heroine appearance, the story requires her to be "light" in the sense of fair and blonde as well as not having any weight. She has no gravity, because she was cursed at her christening by Makemnoit (see below). We think long hair and some kind of fancy dress would look pretty cool in freefall if we can figure out how it ought to be done. There's also the shoes -- since she never walks on them for real, they can be fairly outrageous. This also figures nicely into the story, since the Prince acts as a shoe-black in order to get close to her -- so he sees her shoes a lot. The joke being that this was a really easy job.
Since she has "no gravity" she also can't take anything, no matter how sad or serious, seriously. She laughs a lot, but doesn't like puns, and probably sounds a little hysterical -- GMD says that
Then she would laugh like the very spirit of fun; only in her laugh there was something missing. What it was, [...] was a certain tone, depending upon the possibility of sorrow -- morbidezza, perhaps. She never smiled.
And in fact, when the Prince first hears her laugh, he thinks he hears screaming.
Most of the time she sounds like sort of an airhead, but in the sense of being shallow, as she's apparently fairly intelligent.
Of course, in the story-ending, this is what changes. If and when she "acquires her gravity" she will lose the free-fall behavior and come down to Earth. She will also become very serious. This is the deeper message of the story -- that real happiness requires a knowledge of sorrow.
She also loses some (but not all) of this whenever she's in the water -- apparently this partly negates Makemnoit's spell. The