Shillong, Jan. 3 :    Shillong, Jan. 3:  Thousands of miles away from the spot where the twin towers of the World Trade Center once reached out for the sky, a Khasi shoemaker with a knack for innovation and an ambition to match has crafted his very own 'WTC'. Thirty-year-old James Syiemiong's WTC is, however, not a concrete structure. Neither does the famous abbreviation stand for 'World Trade Center'. Instead, it means the 'world's tallest chappals', a claim the shoemaker wants the Guinness Book of World Records to verify and record for posterity. 'The abbreviation 'WTC' has dual meaning. The world's tallest chappals speak of my creativity as well as the grandeur of the twin towers before they were demolished by terrorists. The soles of the shoes represent 'terror', something that should always be trampled upon or kept beneath the feet,' Syiemiong told The Telegraph. Syiemiong said his designer shoes, over two metres in length, was 'taller' than the 1.65-metre pair made by German shoemaker and Guinness record-holder Heinz Plate. It took him exactly a month to make the shoes, a challenge he took up after watching the twin towers crumble on September 11 last year. Scores of metres of pure leather - 'enough to make 100 pairs of normal shoes' - went into the making of the gigantic shoes. Though nobody will ever wear the pair of shoes, which are of 'size 300', Syiemiong is sure his efforts will not go unrecognised. The youth, who inherited the art of making footwear from his father Vincent Vishnu Chettri, said he derived immense satisfaction from crafting the shoes with his hands. 'I did not use a frame or modern technology to achieve the feat,' he said. Syiemiong started out in the shoemaking business in 1990 with a government loan sanctioned under the Prime Minister's Rozgar Yojana. Nine years later, he won a Rotary award for excellence in leather craftsmanship. The turning point of his life was making a size-28 pair of shoes for a 19-year old customer from Oman.