." When You Come to the End of a Perfect Time," by Dorothy Parker, was actually initially posted in the Nov 1917 issue of Vogue.For additional of the most effective from Vogue's archive, register for our Nostalgia email list here.It all started when I crossed the French gray limit of Mme. Claudine, beauty expert. As much as that time, I have regularly considered myself satisfied. My lifestyle was however devoid of treatment and distress, as well as I knew nothing of the resentment of work. But that is actually throughout now. I will never ever be the upright woman that I was prior to Mme. Claudine, elegance professional. entered into my life. I may household pet over it, however I shall never be the same.You observe, I have always possessed a longing to become lovely. It was a real obsession along with me. Due to having individuals say to me, in very early young people. "Don't you look after-- good-looking is as handsome does," or even "Never you mind. dear, it isn't consistently a rather experience that draws in the men," I expanded very bitter regarding the thing. I took every quite woman as a personal affront, as well as each time some uncommonly stunning animal passed me, I murmured, resentfully, "' There, but also for the elegance of God, go I!" However, though I longed along with all my center to become beautiful, I never ever took any kind of activity about it. I failed to know exactly what to perform. I discovered that there were actually much too many lovely females in this globe for elegance to become a mere gift of nature, yet I possessed no tip exactly how it was actually attained,-- that is actually, I possessed no idea up until I visited Mme. Claudine. Mme. Claudine's mauve and French pray salon was actually a deceit-fully unbusinesslike place, sickening along with the odours of myriad creams and also grains. Mme. Claudine herself was actually tall as well as dark and also superbly repainted, suited up in a grey outfit that seemed it had actually been actually placed on with a comb. She had a way but at difference with her appearances, for she was actually lively and also workaday, and she talked volubly, in a very clear, instead loud voice.The Extras of BeautyWhen women stop would like to be actually stunning, and also Mme. Claudine is compelled to terminate her business as an appeal expert, yet another contacting is awaiting her. She can become a representative for "The Lives and also Letters of the Globe's Greatest Composers," in fourteen quantities so apparent a skill I have actually never ever found. In half a hr she had sold me extra lotions, creams, soaps, ointments, as well as home appliances than I had even understood existed. When the situation including all the posts was placed in my venue that afternoon, I can certainly not believe that it kept my acquisitions. I assumed that some one had played a joke on me as well as delivered me a Ford.Mme. Claudine was actually absolutely nothing otherwise thorough. She set down a diet list, strictly leaving out every thing flavorsome, she created a collection of workouts, as well as she provided me a folio of directions as to the precise use of each assistance to charm that I had acquired. It seemed that the essential part of the therapy was that it must be actually administered in the evening, right before resigning. The last hour, just before I went to bed, was to become the busiest hour of the day. She gave me the feeling that whatever will be actually messed up if the ceremonies were actually con- ducted through daylight. It needs to all of be actually performed during the night,-- the physical exercises most be actually undergone, the creams used, the gears to take elegance nearer has to be worn. Those were her valid points to me, "Bear in mind, during the night, prior to you go to bed.".