The Astral Shirt

Here is an extremely effective version of the shirt removal trick that makes a stage item of this otherwise neglected stunt. Effect: The performer, wearing a white shirt, enters a small cabinet and has his wrists securely tied in the center of a long rope. Throughout the trick two members of the audience hold the ends of the rope, after they have been passed through holes in the sides of the cabinet.

A red shirt is now handed into the cabinet and, almost immediately, the performer's white shirt is flung out. Following the white shirt comes the performer, who steps out of the cabinet wearing the red shirt! Everything can be examined as the rope tie is genuine, the red shirt is really on the performer and the white shirt is unprepared.