Hello all, do any of you make use of the topit for street work? If so who's design do you favor, and what effects with it work well on the street.
I have never used a topit, but I am thinking about trying one.

The topit originated on the street, coming from the old "poacher's pouch" used by London street thieves and pickpockets during the nineteenth century or earlier, so it is quite at home being used in street magic for a friendlier purpose. While many forms of magic are best acquired through reading, the topit is best evaluated by seeing it in action, so you might consider getting a DVD to answer the question of what effects it works well with on the street, then apply it to your current routines to see how it might work for you.

Eleazar Goodenough has a different form of Topit (he calls it s Tuckit) that is described in his Ultimate Torn and Restored Newspaper, and he also has an article in The Wizards' Journal #7 showing how he has rigged an ordinary T-shirt to great advantage in magic work, if that is your fashion style. Both can be found on my site if you are interested.

Don't worry about design and style of the Topit until you have worked with one for some years. Everyone has his own favorite style and guess what? It's the one each magician started out with and learned from, so you can almost never get a true comparison in that department. Just get one, or make one, and start working with it. You'll either fall in love with it, or let it drop by the wayside.

I'd recommend the Ammar DVD. It was what I used to learn more about it. Once mastered, this utility device is quite simply the best concept to vanish or reappear small as well as larger objects. Get really good at it and you'll be able to perform miracles on the spot.

Yea it started as a "booster device" for shoplifters before they were called shoplifters.

I would recomend using a design of your own personally. Make it as small as possible for what you are going to use it for.

Carl Cloutier has lots of topit work. Also a lot on sleeving.

You know what you want it to do, just have a taylor make it look natural.