A coat, jacket and skirt by Balenciaga displaying the cllllean tailoring and functional lines of his designs from this period. The jacket on the right is sleeveless and collarless with a concave front and a half-belted bloused back, double seaming and side vents. The skirt is gathered with unpressed pleats into the waistband and tapers to a hemline barely covering the kneecap. The short coat has set-in, chopped off three-quarter sleeves, a straight back and a repetition of the side vents and