There's more to life than making shoes

Big-arse shoes – who doesn’t want a pair?

Pretty much everyone, unless you happen to have very big feet - not that there is anything wrong with that. Anywho, if your in the market for some giant footwear, simply waltz over to the

Big-arse shoes – who doesn't want a pair?

Pretty much everyone, unless you happen to have very big feet - not that there is anything wrong with that. Anywho, if your in the market for some giant footwear, simply waltz over to the Philippines, where a team of cobblers have made an AU$67,600 pair of shoes.

Crazy.

Each shoe measures 5.5m long, 2.25 metres wide and 1.83 metres high. Oddly enough, the Philippines have a shoe capital - a district that goes by the name of Marikina. Even stranger, the district has a foundation dedicated to colossal shoes. The foundation is certain that the shoes will make it into the Guinness Book of Records. Taking an amazing 77 days to construct, the team used around 600 kilograms of material and sewed 200,000 stiches.

That is a damn lot of stiches. And with all that leather, it would have been a damn lot of cows, too.