Clarice Vance was a well known vaudeville headliner from the turn of the century to 1910. Her bio from the Johnson Briscoe 1904 book "The Actors' Birthday Book" states . . . "All lovers of vaudeville, from the Atlantic to the Pacific and from the Canada Border to Mexico Gulf, are familiar with the admirable methods of Clarice Vance, so well known ...
Had the first mirror dress. Mindel Kingston (World and Kingston) wore a cloak with mirrors in Follies of 1910. Miss Vance sued. "Miss kingston claimed her father invented it over 40 years before (1870) that mirror dresses were the natural evolution from a mirror held in the hand against the spotlight for flirtation numbers. Miss Vance won, by proving there were no spotlights in those days."