Monday, May 13, 2013

OMG Revisited--Where are the shoes?

In answer to my question about Imelda Marcos' shoes, this from my friend Carol Burbank.  thought you might enjoy.

OMG indeed.

Hi Ferne:

I just want to tell you, in answer to your question, "What happened to the shoes?"

Imelda Marcos' famous collection of 3,000 shoes partly destroyed by termites and floods after lying in storage in the Philippines for 26 years since she exiled

  • Part of Imelda Marcos' famous shoe collection, some of her dresses and husband's clothes damaged by bugs and flood water
  • Mrs Marcos left at least 1,220 pairs of shoes behind when she and dictator husband were driven out of Philippines in 1986 revolt
  • 765 pairs of Marcos' shoes remain undamaged in Marikina's shoe museum


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2207353/Imelda-Marcos-legendary-3-000-plus-shoe-collection-destroyed-termites-floods-neglect.html#ixzz2SwEnnNns
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