." When You Come to the End of a Perfect Time," by Dorothy Parker, was actually originally published in the November 1917 issue of Vogue.For more of the most ideal from Style's older post, join our Nostalgia bulletin here.It all started when I traversed the French grey limit of Mme. Claudine, beauty specialist. Up to that time, I have regularly considered on my own satisfied. My lifestyle was but devoid of care and also sadness, and also I understood absolutely nothing of the anger of work. Yet that is throughout now. I am going to certainly never be the innocent female that I was just before Mme. Claudine, charm specialist. entered into my lifestyle. I might animal over it, yet I should never be the same.You view, I have regularly possessed a yearning to be stunning. It was a real fixation with me. Because of possessing individuals claim to me, in early young people. "Don't you look after-- handsome is actually as beautiful performs," or even "Certainly never you mind. dear, it isn't always a pretty encounter that attracts the men," I expanded very harsh regarding the important things. I took every pretty lady as a private affront, and each time some abnormally stunning animal passed me, I murmured, resentfully, "' There, but for the elegance of God, go I!" But, though I longed with all my heart to be beautiful, I never ever took any sort of action about it. I really did not understand specifically what to carry out. I discovered that there were much a lot of gorgeous ladies in this planet for elegance to become a plain present of attribute, but I had no tip how it was obtained,-- that is, I possessed no suggestion until I visited Mme. Claudine. Mme. Claudine's mauve and also French pray salon was actually a deceit-fully unbusinesslike location, sickening along with the smells of myriad creams as well as particles. Mme. Claudine herself was tall and also dark and also skillfully coated, suited up in a gray outfit that seemed it had been applied along with a brush. She possessed a method singularly at difference with her looks, for she was actually speedy and also businesslike, and also she spoke volubly, in a very clear, somewhat loud voice.The Etc of BeautyWhen women stop would like to be actually wonderful, and also Mme. Claudine is actually pushed to discontinue her company as an elegance specialist, an additional calling is actually awaiting her. She can easily come to be a representative for "The Lifestyles as well as Characters of the World's Greatest Composers," in fourteen volumes so unique an ability I have actually certainly never viewed. Asunder an hour she had sold me more creams, ointments, soaps, ointments, and also appliances than I had also understood existed. When the case containing all the posts was transferred in my hall that afternoon, I can not think that it secured my acquisitions. I assumed that some one had actually played a joke on me as well as delivered me a Ford.Mme. Claudine was actually absolutely nothing if not extensive. She ascribed a diet plan checklist, rigidly omitting every little thing palatable, she composed a collection of exercises, and she offered me a folio of directions concerning the specific use each help to beauty that I had actually gotten. It appeared that the integral part of the therapy was actually that it should be administered at night, just before resigning. The last hour, before I went to sleep, was actually to be the busiest hour of the time. She offered me the perception that every little thing will be actually ruined if the rites were con- ducted by daytime. It needs to all be actually performed in the evening,-- the physical exercises most be looked at, the ointments used, the machines to carry elegance nearer has to be worn. Those were her valid points to me, "Keep in mind, at night, right before you go to sleep.".