These shoes weren't made for walking (02/07/93)

These shoes weren't made for walking

IVANO-FRANKIVSKE - In Ivano-Frankivske high fashion trendsetters recently slipped their feet into some very dead styles. The Washington Times recently reported that a certain style of Syrian-made shoe had become popular among the more chic men of the city.

For several days the shoes were quickly snapped up. Soon after the soles began peeling away, the colors ran and the new shoes quickly fell apart, but not before the small private company selling them had turned a tidy profit.

A local investigation eventually determined that the very vogue footwear was intended for corpses at Syrian funerals.

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