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Neglect ruins Marcos' prized shoes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
Ferdinand Marcos died in exile in Hawaii in 1989 and his widow and children returned home years later.
They left behind staggering amounts of personal belongings, clothes and art objects at the palace, including at least 1,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych],220 pairs of Imelda Marcos' shoes.
More than 150 carton boxes of clothes, dress accessories and shoes of the Marcoses were transferred to the National Museum for safekeeping two years ago after termites,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], humidity and mold threatened the apparel at the riverside palace. There they deteriorated further as the fragile boxes were abandoned in a padlocked museum hall that had no facilities to protect such relics and that was inundated by tropical storm rains last month due to a gushing leak in the ceiling,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], museum officials said.
Museum staffers,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who were not aware the boxes contained precious mementoes from the Marcoses,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], opened the hall on the fourth floor of the building after noticing water pouring out from under the door. They were shocked to see Marcos' shoes and gowns when they opened the wet boxes, officials said.
Workers hurriedly moved the boxes to a dry room and some were later brought to a museum laboratory,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], where a small team of curators scrambled to assess the extent of the damage,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a process that may take months given the huge volume of the apparel. Some items have obviously been damaged by termites and mold beyond repair,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], according to museum curator Orlando Abinion,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who is heading the effort.
"We're doing a conservation rescue,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," Abinion told the AP. "There was termite infestation and mold in past years,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and these were aggravated by last month's storm."
"It's unfortunate because Imelda may have worn some of these clothes in major official events and as such have an important place in our history,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]," he said.
Two AP journalists saw a badly tattered box at the museum with damaged and soiled leather bags and designer shoes of Imelda Marcos' bulging out,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych]. Termites damaged the heel and sole of a white Pierre Cardin shoe. Other shoes had been warped out of shape or messed by stains,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych].
About 100 of Ferdinand Marcos' Barong shirts were squeezed tight into another box, some still attached to plastic hangers. and European brands,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], astounded the world and became a symbol of excess in the Southeast Asian nation, where many still walked barefoot out of abject poverty.
Fernando Marcos' successor,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], democracy icon Corazon Aquino,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], accused him of stealing billions of dollars during his 20-year rule and ordered many of his assets seized.
The clothes and shoes of the Marcoses were not among the assets allegedly stolen by them and sequestered by the government following the dictator's fall,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], according to Presidential Commission on Good Government official Maita Gonzaga. The government has so far recovered $2.24 billion worth of cash, bank accounts and prime real estate from the Marcoses and their cronies, she said.
After the 1986 revolt,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Aquino had Imelda Marcos' shoes displayed at the presidential palace as a symbol of the former first lady's lavish lifestyle. The shoes were then removed from public view and stored in the palace basement when Aquino stepped down in 1992.
Imelda Marcos claimed many of the shoes were gifts from Filipino shoemakers in suburban Marikina city,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the country's shoemaking capital,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], for endorsing their products. Marikina officials borrowed 800 pairs of her shoes in 2001 for a shoe museum, which has become a tourist spot. Massive flooding, however,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], damaged dozens of pairs of Marcos' shoes in Marikina in 2009.
About 765 pairs,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], including famous brands like Gucci,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Charles Jourdan,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Christian Dior,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], Ferragamo, Chanel and Prada,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], survived the Marikina floods. The shoes still look remarkably new due to meticulous museum care,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], which includes displaying them in airtight and dust-free glass cabinets in an air-conditioned gallery,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], away from direct sunlight. The shoe collection draws a daily crowd of 50 to 100 Philippine and foreign tourists,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], who almost always leave in awe, museum manager Jane Ballesteros said.
"The first word they utter is 'Wow,' followed by the question,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 'Was she able to wear all of these?'" Ballesteros said. "When I say, yes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], look at the scratches on the soles,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the next reaction is,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], 'Really?'"
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