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Cashing In On The Fetish
The world’s best-known shoe collector, former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos, has opened a museum in which most of the exhibits are her own footwear.
The exhibits include shoes made by such world-famous names as Ferragamo, Givenchy, Chanel and Christian Dior, all size eight-and-a-half.
The Marikina City Footwear Museum in Manila contains hundreds of pairs of shoes, many of them found in the presidential palace when Imelda and her husband, President Ferdinand Marcos, fled the Philippines in 1986.
Some 200,000 people work in the Marikina district making shoes, with roads carrying names such as Sandal Street and Slipper Street.
The museum management hopes it will help attract tourism to Marikina, a district known as the shoe capital of the Philippines.
The Patron Lady of Shoes
Once known as the ‘Steel Butterfly’, Imelda Marcos was the beautiful wife and confidante of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos. Ferdinand Marcos probably first noticed her when Imelda was voted Miss Manila in the early 1950s, and it was the beginning of a long and infamous marriage. The Marcos regime (1965-86) was marked by corruption, political repression and gross financial shenanigans, acts to which Imelda was almost certainly privy. The Marcoses were finally deposed in 1986 and fled to Hawaii, where Ferdinand died in 1989.
The fun started when the palace where the Marcoses lived was raided after the couple fled in 1986. Amidst Imelda’s rich dresses and hats and furniture and fine crystal was an enormous closet full of exquisite designer high-heeled shoes - 3000 pairs of them!
And what did Mrs. Marcos have to say to that? “I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.” (1987)
Imelda Marcos later returned to the Philippines and, in spite of everything, was elected a legislative representative from her native district of Leyte. In October of 2001 she was arrested and formally charged with corruption and amassing a fortune of up to five billion dollars illegally during her husband’s regime.
But nobody really thinks she is at all shattered by the charges or even her eventual conviction. After all, she is the woman who once said: “Win or lose, we go shopping after the election.”
Convertible High Heels
A somewhat amusing yet interesting article I found today on Gizmag: Convertible high heels.
High heels are the only acceptable form of shoe for females on a formal occasion, and are almost mandatory in a business power dressing, yet they are very uncomfortable and casue long term health issues. How many times have you seen women walking to work in sensible shoees carrying high heels in their handbag? A new design for adjustable high heels could solve the problem. This shoe solution converts a high 7 cm heel to a low 3 cm heel with one simple twist on/off action.
They’re not the trendiest shoes that can be found out there, but the idea is sure a nice one, since we all know that none of us high-heels wearers are shielded from buying shoes that aren’t necessarily the best thing for our feet (whomever has never kept shoes that hurt their feet but were really elegant and thus worth wearing all the same, please raise the hand now).
Flickr Heels
There are high heels galore on Flickr.
Click the black heels below for a Heels Slide Show.
Click the green pair for a Flickr "Heels Cluster"
Flickr’s images change continuously - so click often.
Ann Taylor Loft sale… including heels!
If you’re an Ann Taylor Loft fan, you’ll be pleased to hear they’ve got a sale going on. Included are several nice, summery pairs of heels:
Both of these are marked down to $19.99, for instance. Click here for the main sale page. To see the heels, click on ‘footwear.’
Evolution
You’ve probably seen those charts of the evolution of man, starting with a blob of protoplasm through lizards (still found in lounges), birds, four-footed beasts, monkeys and finally Australopithocampus, or contemporary man, right? Along the way, we lose and gain appendages like tails and appendixes, prehensile thumbs and furry coats and occasionally a sport like an albino turns up. I was just thinking of the evolution of the little black pump, and found examples here and there to arrange in the order of PUMP EVOLUTION:
Are we making progress, or what?!
Puzzle Pump
I had Googled “high heels” and found myself in some pretty interesting pages, some for afficianados of the finer things in life, some just for fashion, and some better left unspoken. Then I wandered off the beaten path, following a link to here, to there, to I-don’t-know-where this puzzling pump came from …
Shoe Posters Found
There are some really thrilling illustrations of sexy high heels available over the Internet these days. Just look at these half-tone printed posters I found on the website for artist Markus M. Mey. He sells them with or without an autograph, through PayPal and another payment service. Now, if he’d just tell us where to find the shoes!
A female foot in black high heels / pumps / stiletto (botticelli), steps on the chin of a man lying on his back.
A woman’s two feet are dressed in nylon socks / stockings and black high heels / pumps / stilettos (botticelli). The right foot is out of focus; her left foot stands on a fish.