She is most famous for her work with Walt Disney, who employed her to develop costumes for films, television, and theme parks.

She met Marc Davis, her future husband and fellow Disney Legend, while he was teaching a night class in animation.

Alice earned a reputation within the fashion community for her pattern-making skills and her expertise with different types of exotic fabrics.

He needed a costume for dancer Helene Stanley to wear as she performed live-action reference footage for the animation of Princess Aurora in Sleeping Beauty; Marc wanted to see how the skirt flowed and bunched as Stanley moved about in order to draft accurate animation.

During the "small world" project, she established an AA figure costume manufacturing area, quality control system, and refurbishing techniques at WED Enterprises in Glendale, California.

[6] Walt Disney assigned her to create the costumes for the AA characters that would inhabit the Pirates of the Caribbean attraction.

She also designed the costumes for the Mission Control AA figures in the revamped Flight to the Moon attraction the same year as Pirates.

Following Marc Davis' lead, she retired from WED in 1978, but still consulted on various projects for The Walt Disney Company, such as Pixar's Up (2009).

[10] In 2014, Davis was the recipient of the June Foray Award in recognition of a significant and benevolent or charitable impact on the art and industry of animation.