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Imelda Marcos claims she has only 200 pairs of shoes. She’s lying.

August 16, 2011

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By Raïssa Robles

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One pair of Imelda Marcos' shoes - PHOTO from SGV

For the record, Imelda Marcos told Philippine Daily Inquirer last Sunday, she has only 200 pairs of shoes.

Imelda Marcos is trying to erase her shoes from world history.

Type the phrase “Imelda shoes” on the Web search engine Google and you instantly get over two million entries.

Last Sunday, the Queen of Shoes was asked by Inquirer’s lifestyle section “Playtime”:

For the record, how many pairs of shoes did they discover in Malacañang?

Her answer:

They were lying because when finally Marikina was asking for the shoes in Malacañang, it was less than 200. Sabi ko [I said], “Somebody must have worn it. Somebody who stayed in Malacañang must have worn it.” Of course, Mrs. (Corazon) Aquino said, “I was not the one because my size is 6, not 8.”

Playtime persisted:

So it was not 3,000 pairs.

Imelda Marcos emphatically  replied:

Lie. Only 200 pairs. I had more panties than shoes. It’s true. I wore black panties. They displayed it and it was good all my panties were black. I had thousands of it.

I wonder if the Queen of England has that many panties, or for that matter Bill Gates’ wife. They could certainly afford to wear and throw black undies all the days of their life.

But I digress.

Marcos---SGV-The-Gold-RecorWhat Imelda Marcos must have forgotten or never knew was that her shoes were formally audited by no less than SGV (Sycip, Gorres, Velayo & Co.), the number one auditing company in the Philippines.

In a book detailing its history entitled A Gold Record, SGV lists the counting of Imelda Marcos’ shoes as among its proud accomplishments.

SGV actually counted each pair. It counted 3,000 pairs in all. This is not a rumor. It’s a fact – 3,000 pairs in all.

My copy of the book was sent to me by SGV founder Washington Sycip when I was doing a profile of him for Asiaweek magazine. He thought it would help me understand the company he had built from the ground up.

I scanned the entry on the shoes in the SGV book. Here it is:

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I personally saw Imelda Marcos’ shoes in the basement of her bedroom in Malacañang Palace the day after she had fled from there together with her family. I saw that many of them were foreign luxury brands.

I saw the shoes with the flashing disco lights. They were like a grown-up version of what my son used to wear as a toddler. You know,  those shoes with winking lights at the bottom.

This is how Imelda Marcos’ shoes were displayed on racks:

 

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Photo of a portion of Imelda Marcos' 3,000 pairs of shoes displayed on wooden racks

I know that deep down inside, many women want to own many, many pairs of shoes of various colors and style.

But even by international standards, 3,000 pairs is way beyond tacky.

It would have taken Imelda Marcos over eight years to wear them all, one pair at a time, provided she didn’t add anymore to her collection.

A Time magazine essay pointed out the moral lesson of her shoe obsession shortly after the Marcos downfall:

The parable of Imelda’s shoes has something to teach. She could never wear them all. Nor could the Marcos family, one suspects, manage to spend the billions of dollars they plundered from the Philippines.

The Marcos plundering seems ultimately a cheerless affair, covert though sometimes ostentatious, avaricious though often prodigal. Christ said, “If thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven.” Marcos did not wish to wait. He turned Christianity upside down. He took nourishment from the mouths of the poor and transformed it into his treasure on earth. Such venality is not a matter of either Freud or metaphysics. It is just a brutal habit, the crocodile reflex of a man too long in power. It is a subdivision of the banality of evil.

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Comments

  1. Mei says

    October 18, 2012 at 8:38 AM

    How about the P200 million + worth of jewelries that Imeldific asked Rudy Velayo to bring to Malacanang with specific instruction to “bring all your best jewelries?” When Velayo went to malacanang with all his best jewelries, Imeldific looked at them, wore some, and said “Thank you” to Velayo. Her guards then closed all the jewelry briefcases and took them all.
    That’s how expensive the Imeldific’s “Thank you” was!

    Happened to Elizabeth Taylor too. When the Imeldific saw Taylor’s necklace, a gift from her then bf Jim Burton, the Imeldific asked her if she could try it on. When the Imeldific tried it on, she just said “Thank you” to Taylor and left.

    • raissa says

      October 18, 2012 at 9:30 AM

      Do you have links?

  2. ARMAN says

    March 30, 2012 at 9:57 AM

    For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
    or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? matthew 16:26

  3. net says

    August 18, 2011 at 8:46 PM

    pinanganak na sinungaling, tumatandang sinungaling. baka akala nya, hawak pa rin nila ang media at nagto-tour ngayon sa pagpapabango sa sinungaling at kriminal nilang pangalan. bigyan mo nga ng kopya yan ma’am ng libro ni mr.sycip, ng matauhan sandali.

  4. Rallie F. Cruz says

    August 17, 2011 at 12:46 PM

    A liar who believes in her lies will never admit that she lied. She will even force other people to say it is true, since she has bought their loyalty.

First they came for the Socialists, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Socialist Then they came fof the Trade Unionists, and I did not out speak out— Because I was not a Trade Unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out— Because I was not a Jew. Then they came for me— And there was no one left to speak for me. —Martin Niemöller (1892-1984)

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