Hundreds of pieces of Ferdinand Marcos's clothing,
including the formal native see-through Barong shirts he wore during his two-decade rule.
have also begun to gather mould and fray after being stored for years without protection
at the presidential palace and later at Manila's National Museum, officials say.
he Marcoses left behind personal belongings,
clothes and art objects at the palace
including at least 1,220 pairs of Imelda Marcos's shoes,
after they fled the country 26 years ago.
Imelda Marcos has since been elected to parliament.
More than 150 boxes of the Marcoses' clothes, accessories and shoes were transferred
to the museum
for safekeeping two years ago after termites,
humidity and mould threatened them at the riverside palace
There they deteriorated further as the fragile boxes were abandoned in a padlocked museum hall
that was inundated by tropical storm rains last month
because of a gushing leak in the ceiling, museum officials said.
