." When You Come to the End of a Perfect Time," by Dorothy Parker, was actually released in the November 1917 issue of Vogue.For more of the most effective from Style's repository, join our Fond memories bulletin here.It all started when I moved across the French gray threshold of Mme. Claudine, elegance specialist. As much as that time, I have actually consistently considered myself satisfied. My life was but free from care as well as sadness, and I knew nothing at all of the bitterness of labour. However that is throughout right now. I am going to certainly never be the innocent girl that I was actually just before Mme. Claudine, appeal expert. came into my lifestyle. I may animal over it, however I shall certainly never be the same.You view, I have constantly possessed a hoping to become beautiful. It was a veritable fascination with me. As a result of possessing individuals say to me, in early youth. "Don't you look after-- good-looking is actually as good-looking performs," or "Certainly never you mind. dear, it isn't constantly a rather deal with that entices the guys," I grew fairly bitter concerning the many things. I took every fairly girl as a personal affront, and also whenever some abnormally amazing animal passed me, I murmured, resentfully, "' There, but also for the poise of God, go I!" Yet, though I longed with all my center to become beautiful, I never took any type of activity concerning it. I really did not recognize precisely what to carry out. I realized that there were far too many gorgeous ladies in this particular world for charm to become a mere gift of nature, however I had no tip exactly how it was obtained,-- that is, I had no idea up until I went to see Mme. Claudine. Mme. Claudine's mauve and also French pray hair salon was a deceit-fully unbusinesslike area, sickening along with the smells of myriad creams and also powders. Mme. Claudine herself was actually tall and dark and exceptionally coated, dressed in a gray dress that looked as if it had actually been applied with a comb. She possessed a method primarily at variance along with her looks, for she was actually quick as well as businesslike, and she spoke volubly, in a crystal clear, rather loud voice.The Etc of BeautyWhen females stop intending to be wonderful, and Mme. Claudine is required to terminate her business as an appeal professional, one more calling is awaiting her. She can easily come to be a representative for "The Lifestyles and also Characters of the Planet's Greatest Composers," in fourteen quantities so unmistakable a skill I have never ever observed. Asunder a hr she had offered me even more creams, lotions, soaps, lotions, and home appliances than I had even recognized existed. When the situation having all the articles was actually deposited in my venue that afternoon, I might not believe that it held my acquisitions. I assumed that some one had actually played a joke on me and also sent me a Ford.Mme. Claudine was nothing if not complete. She set down a diet list, rigidly omitting every thing flavorsome, she wrote a set of physical exercises, and she gave me a folio of directions in order to the particular use each help to elegance that I had acquired. It seemed that the important part of the procedure was that it must be used during the night, just before resigning. The final hr, just before I went to bed, was actually to be the busiest hr of the day. She provided me the feeling that everything will be wrecked if the ceremonies were actually con- ducted through sunshine. It must all of be performed in the evening,-- the physical exercises very most be actually gone through, the ointments administered, the gears to bring elegance nearer should be actually worn. Those were her last words to me, "Remember, at night, right before you go to bed.".