Presto! Change-O!

December, 1973

There was a time when no self-respecting magician would dare go on stage in anything less than white tie and tails. How else would he be able to tap his top hat with his ivory-tipped cane and produce a rabbit or two or three? The famed Houdini, for example, wouldn't have been caught dead without his soup-and-fish, even when locked in a trunk under 20 feet of water. But magicians and times have changed. The trend among illusionists--and among those who move in the social world that calls for &quo...