How Does Quick Change Magic Work

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00:00I just figured out how quick-change magicians work, and I feel like I've got to show someone, so consider yourself lucky.

00:05So the girl that's on America's Got Talent right now changed her outfit six different times.

00:09There should be two things immediately obvious when you watch her performance.

00:12The first being that each outfit gets a little bit longer than the last, with an exception of the blue outfit.

00:17And I'll get into that in a minute.

00:18The second being that everything on the stage is a part of her set, which includes that suitcase behind her that she never touches.

00:25Well, that's at least what they want you to think.

00:28Let's talk about this first change.

00:29If you watch it in slow motion, you notice that it breaks in the middle, and kind of shoots around her into the back, right into the suitcase.

00:37Traditionally, if you saw an outfit like this, you might think it's a zipper, but I would probably suggest magnetic buttons.

00:42For her second quick-change, she pulls out this yellow curtain and goes and stands in front of that suitcase once again.

00:47She covers herself for one second, and the outfit changes.

00:51I want to go ahead and point out that when she's holding that curtain in front of her,

00:54both of her hands are holding the curtain, meaning that she can't use her hands to change her clothes.

00:59Something else is behind her, pulling them off.

01:02And it's that little suitcase behind her. Look, it's smiling at us.

01:05Next change is a little sloppy, but there's a lot going on.

01:07I think the bag is a complete distraction, and it's just a poster that gets sucked up into that gold tube.

01:12As for the dress, if you watch carefully, you can see her kind of pull it down and push it on top of the current dress she's wearing.

01:18There's a bunch of these really surprised faces, in hopes that you look at her face instead of her dress, just in case something goes wrong.

01:24For her next change, she grabs a different bag to cover herself up with, and stands right in front of the suitcase once again.

01:30I think it works something like this. She's got these little retractable strings attached to all of her dresses.

01:34This part is inside the suitcase, and this part's attached to her dress.

01:38Whenever she clicks some sort of button, it detaches from her dress and instantly goes into the suitcase.

01:44And then for her finale, she has this dress on a picture frame above her,

01:47and she's trying to make sure you look up there and not look at where her hand is.

01:51The moment the dress falls, she's covered in feathers, and you can kind of see that she's pushing something down.

01:56The plot twist? The dress doesn't fall.

01:59Similar to the dress in the clear bag earlier, this one kind of just folds up in itself and stays in the picture frame.