Marc Fennell

Eleanor and Dorothy have saved the collection by storing them in the swanky department store, Saks Fifth Avenue.

But those boxes can't live there forever.

Nor do they want them to.

They want people to see these pieces again, to appreciate them.

Because at the end of the day, the whole point of this exercise was that costumes, fashion, should be seen as art.

They belong in a museum.

That is when Eleanor has the idea that they should approach a museum.

If you live in New York City and want to go to the best art museum in town, you, my friend, are going to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Met.

The first argument she made is that this collection needs to be in the Met because it was the Met's job to preserve the relics of New York City's, frankly, one of their first industries.

And it works.

Sort of?

Taylor basically calls her bluff.

He says, well, if the fashion industry is so interested in preserving these pieces, then sure, we'll house them.

But you have to pay.

Okay, so look, this is just after World War II, so it's 1946.

$120,000 back then would be around $2 million today.

And then on top of that, Taylor was asking for the equivalent of half a million dollars in today's money per year.

That is not a small problem to solve.

Eleanor and Dorothy, I mean, they can't afford it themselves.

So they have to crowdsource the money.