A sincerely cute 16th century Church.
(This plan falls apart because I've forgotten it's name. "Blessed Conception" is what I have in my head, but don't trust me on that. Ah, just tried to google for it and it could be "Our Lady of The Abandoned" Cathedral, but still don't trust me on that.)
... because The Shoe Museum is diagonally across the road:
The Shoe Museum.
Marikini City is the Shoe Capital of Manila, and here they make shoes for the entire world - their snake skin pairs are especially popular - and we really do have to thank Imelda Marcos for that because it was her support and encouragement that made it so ...
... so when she ran away after the Edsa Uprising, leaving behind 8,000 pairs of shoes, Marikina City kindly offered to give them a respectful home ...
... in a sweet little abandoned 16th century rice storage silo. Nice, huh!
However, 8000 pairs of shoes are just too many for any self-respecting 16th century rice storage silo to handle, so they only ever have 800 on display at any one time, and they rotate them.
From what we saw of the 800 currently on display, Imelda mainly wore Charles Jourdans and the now defunct company Bellami:
Since they were, back in the 80s, about US$300 to US$500 a pair, we were shocked. OK, more than shocked. All those "Imelda-wasn't-so-bad" points accumulated after seeing the restoration work she'd done at Intramuros were immediately wiped out and, on a spot, we began a little "Imelda was a Creep" club.
Have you any idea what 800 pairs of shoes looks like? No, NOT like your local shoe shop. If you actually start counting the pairs they have on display - and I have since seeing this museum - most have between 30 and 50 pairs out there on the racks, and even the largest shoe shops only have about 80. In fact, 800 pairs, when they're in your face, is a shocking number. In fact, so shocking I cannot even start to get my mind around the idea of seeing those 8000 pairs in any one place.
I thought I have a stupid number of shoes but I counted them and I have 28 pairs ... which I have since weeded back out of sheer shame ... although only to 24 pairs because I truly NEED those.
800 pairs!!! Let me show you only a small sample:
As Shirl said "Even six of those pairs could have bought a jeepney for a family, and that would have supported them for their entire life and even put a dozen kids through university."
Yeah, Imelda was a creep. She may have done a great deal of good at restoring Intramuros, but even all those pairs of almost identical black boots alone take her out of the "Great Lady" stratosphere and put her out there as A CREEP!!!
So how could we NOT, after leaving The Shoe Museum, go straight down to the very streets of Edsa where the people gathered in their millions to toss her out!
Oh, and if you, like us, want to select the stupidest pair she owned, here's a range for you to make your decision:
My vote is for that last pair. Ewwww!
... even before she was First Lady,
and was still just your average Beauty Queen.
... so when she ran away after the Edsa Uprising, leaving behind 8,000 pairs of shoes, Marikina City kindly offered to give them a respectful home ...
... a highly respectful home...
... a highly sickly sweet,
sentimentally respectful home...
... in a sweet little abandoned 16th century rice storage silo. Nice, huh!
However, 8000 pairs of shoes are just too many for any self-respecting 16th century rice storage silo to handle, so they only ever have 800 on display at any one time, and they rotate them.
From what we saw of the 800 currently on display, Imelda mainly wore Charles Jourdans and the now defunct company Bellami:
I wouldn't mind these ones!
Since they were, back in the 80s, about US$300 to US$500 a pair, we were shocked. OK, more than shocked. All those "Imelda-wasn't-so-bad" points accumulated after seeing the restoration work she'd done at Intramuros were immediately wiped out and, on a spot, we began a little "Imelda was a Creep" club.
Have you any idea what 800 pairs of shoes looks like? No, NOT like your local shoe shop. If you actually start counting the pairs they have on display - and I have since seeing this museum - most have between 30 and 50 pairs out there on the racks, and even the largest shoe shops only have about 80. In fact, 800 pairs, when they're in your face, is a shocking number. In fact, so shocking I cannot even start to get my mind around the idea of seeing those 8000 pairs in any one place.
I thought I have a stupid number of shoes but I counted them and I have 28 pairs ... which I have since weeded back out of sheer shame ... although only to 24 pairs because I truly NEED those.
800 pairs!!! Let me show you only a small sample:
As Shirl said "Even six of those pairs could have bought a jeepney for a family, and that would have supported them for their entire life and even put a dozen kids through university."
Yeah, Imelda was a creep. She may have done a great deal of good at restoring Intramuros, but even all those pairs of almost identical black boots alone take her out of the "Great Lady" stratosphere and put her out there as A CREEP!!!
So how could we NOT, after leaving The Shoe Museum, go straight down to the very streets of Edsa where the people gathered in their millions to toss her out!
Oh, and if you, like us, want to select the stupidest pair she owned, here's a range for you to make your decision:
My vote is for that last pair. Ewwww!
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