Katie Holmes and Suri Cruise are steadily enjoying their very last days of summer before Suri gets started at her new school, Avenues, for first grade. In these photos, the girls headed out to the Make Meaning activity center in NYC before heading to an Upper East Side bakery. Suri is not loving the photographers (at one point, she stuck her tongue out at them), and there’s a new bodyguard in attendance as well. You may have also noticed that Katie is still wearing those everpresent fug booties that she loves so much. The Mail has taken it upon themselves to write an ode to the booties. Actually, not so much. They’re making fun of Katie for wearing them fifteen times in a row. C’mon, they’re understating it just a bit now because I know that Katie has worn those shoes far more consecutive times than that:
Double denim, Boden style stripes, shapeless frocks and boring ballet shoes have been staples of Katie’s wardrobe for the past five years as she dressed to distract from a marked height and age difference between her and 5.7″ 50 year old husband Tom.
And while she showed fashionable promise days after her divorce from movie star Cruise when she stepped out in sky-high heels, it seems Katie has reverted to her old ways.
Since her sidekick Suri has been spending more time with her father, Katie has found a new best friend in the form of a tired, grubby pair of boots and the pair have been inseparable since she first donned them in early July.
In fact, Katie loves the tan suede Isabel Marant boots so much that she has worn them 15 times in the last 30 days.
[From Daily Mail]
Actually, the Mail is wrong about Katie first breaking in those booties in July. We have photos of her wearing them last September for crying out loud. Not that I should talk because I work at home and pretty much wear my running shoes whenever I go anyplace. Of course, I don’t hold myself out as a fashion designer like Katie does. Still, she really loves those damn shoes, and you know what? I’ve given up the fight. Katie and her booties win. Long live the fug booties! That’s what her next Holmes & Yang line should be — all styles of fug booties.
As for Suri, I hope she makes the most of her lingering days of summer. A structured school schedule will probably come as quite a surprise, but she’ll be fine after a few weeks of adjustment. Suri will probably even thrive in a disciplined, organized environment. Isn’t she just a gorgeous child though? Tom and Katie might have been a mess as a couple, but they made for a great gene pool. And yes, I still think Tom is Suri’s bio dad, and I’m glad she didn’t inherit his crazy ass smile.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and Pacific Coast News
If looks could kill, whomever that bodyguard is staring at (for making Suri duck her head) would be dead.
He’s a keeper, Katie! 🙂
Bedhead, any one of you CB writers could do a better Ode to Fug Booties than the DM!
LOL. Exactly!!
I think it should be legal to at least give the paps a slap and a shove if they’re all up in your grill. Maybe stick out a foot and trip a few of them? (evil grin).
OT: LOVED your pics and Kitten’s, as well. So much for the theory that we’re all hideous, depraved bats, lurking on our laptops in cobweb-laden cellars somewhere. GORGEOUS! 🙂
Agreed. I’d definitely be fighting the urge to lay the smackdown on ANY pap who made my kiddo look like that!
(Thank you. Yeah, not a one of us are trolls living under a bridge! 😉 How’s the recovery?)
Totally agree. On a side note though, it must suck to have to have a bodyguard accompany you on mundane errands, trips to the playground, etc.
Those paps should stay the h*ll away from kids and use a long lens.
It would make magazines a lot more entertaining if celebrities could do that.
At least kids should be allowed to do that. Suri can throw her dolls at them and the Jolie-Pitt clan can hurl all their toys if they like. Now THAT I would buy magazines for to see.
I guess they are comfy walking-in-the-city shoes….can’t blame her. But yeah, they are ugly.
yeah exactly, there aren’t many shoes that are comfortable for all day city walking that aren’t sports sandals or tennis shoes.
I’m probably in the minority here, but I don’t think that the booties are that bad. A little beat up, yes but c’mon, we’ve ALL worn shoes that should probably be retired but they’re just so darn comfy!
My shoes are on their 5th year. I should give them up by I have long narrow feet and these don’t kill my toes.
I’ll glue them together if I have to!
I’ll let the booties slide.
Love the shoes! They look comfy and loved. And that outfit calls for “rustic” shoes.
Ok I get it, it’s her feet her boots blah blah blah but why the heck does she wear then 247 yuk.. Please at least another colour..
SURI IS WEARING A COAT! Omg. Good job, Mommy Katie!
I guess Tom told her over and over again how much he disliked those booties. Now Katie will wear them, to infinity and beyond!
But it’s still too hot in NYC for wearing a coat… 0_o
Can’t KH at least buy Suri a pair of sunglasses to wear? It’s not much but it would give Suri a measure of privacy from the intrusion of constant photographers in her face.
i know! that Suri’s so topsy-turvy. she’s like ta heck with coats in the winter & i think i’ll bundle up in the summer. lol
she’s the boss alright. 😆
Of all the crazy gossip about Tom, I also still believe Tom is Suri’s bio dad. I actually love Suri’s shoes in here. But apparently Lainey said it cost more than my car payment. Sigh…..
Maybe the booties are made out of Scientology-resistent suede.
That is the only acceptable excuse for their fugness.
Hi Mia Girl: GOOD ONE – your post made my laugh out loud which I needed today!! Thanks ^_^
Lots of “fashiony” girls like Diane Kruger and Kate Bosworth wear those same booties all the time, so *shrug* I don’t really like them but other people do. Who cares.
Yeah, what about Britney’s favorite fawn booties?
I saw photos of Diane Kruger and Joshua Jackson in Vancouver and I SWEAR she had the same booties on. Katie is stunning but a shoe model she is not due to her thick legs. NOT bashing Katie, I’d love her hair….
It reminds me of Brit Brit and those wretched fugly UGGS she wore everday for 3yrs. Just tragic.
I am telling y’all… those are her magic booties.
Sh*t kicking, that the cult right out of her life, magic booties.
Long live magic booties!
Agreed, but after the summer (and spring) she’s had,she can wear any booties that she wants.
I give up the ugly booties fight, only because I agree with the commenter who’ve said they have superpowers, in case of emergency they can save Katie and Suri from crazyness.
OMG!!!!
Love Katie and have never commented on said fug booties until now, but….ENOUGH ALREADY!!!
Weirdly, I saw pictures floating around yesterday (Lainey, I think) of Diane Kruger wearing the same fun boots. DK, fashion goddess? WTF?!
I have grown increasingly nonplussed about these booties she has insisting on wearing, when it finally hit me! Tom hates these booties, he used to always complain and roll his eyes when she would leave the house wearing these. That’s it! These are her f-you boots to Tommy Boy, she knows that every time he trolls the tabloids, at night, wearing his sunglasses, and using a pink plastic ruler to measure how tall he looks compared to all the real grownups, that when he sees her in these booties, that little vein on the side of his head bulges out, just a little bit more……
I love the “fug” booties, love ’em. She’s being herself, and that is nice after all this time and her new-found freedom. I haven’t seen her smile like this since before she even met the lift-wearing midget. She looks happy again and seems to be enjoying showing Suri a normal childhood and not having her cooped inside a cold, vast mansion watching Scientology videos for kids (by herself). Give me a break *rolls eyes.* She has been through hell. Let her wear what she wants 😀
Suri is only cute if she smiles or just looks at the camera. She looks scary as in Scary Tommy genes in the daily mail pictures of her sticking her tongue out.
Maybe they’re also used to signal people. Currently:
WORN: “we are ok”
NOT WORN: “captain crazy is still parked over there”
After I developed some foot problems this summer I gave up judging others foot attire. You never know what’s going on under the shoe/boot/slipper.
PREACH IT! Same here. 🙂
Two bunionectomies and you will slice anybody that complains about your comfy footwear.
+1. Haven’t been able to wear heels sinc the surgery in ’94. Sigh!
The problem isn’t so much those ugly dirty boots…it’s the rest of her choices. She has no idea how to dress to flatter her body type. Today’s outfit is a slight improvement – she should always wear bootcut/flare pants. She has the worst fashion sense in terms of what cuts are best for her shape and for what body parts should be accentuated or camouflaged. The worst!
I so agree with you. She lacks good fashion sense. You’re either born with it or you are not. I bet her home decorating skills aren’t much better. I’m not trying to be mean I’m just saying some people have it and others don’t. My nephew just out of college is making over a $100,000 at Microsoft for his first job, he’s very smart but can’t dress worth a darn.
I hate those shoes and Suri seems like a spoiled child. I hope she out grows it but seems unlikely unless she is totally removed from the glare of fame. Maybe boarding school in England could help her in a few years.
What? Why is there gossip about this
This girl ought to be thrown into public school. She seems so insulated and gets whatever she wants. You can be wealthy and not spoil your kid to death.
I’ve seen wealthy, insulated children become mean, insufferable adolescents. I hope she is raised to be grounded.
That’s all.
Burn the boots, enough already
BURN THEM!!! Let’s start a petition or something. 😉 I’ve been calling for a bonfire for months. At least fall is coming so we don’t have to see her wear them with shorts!
New york streets always look filthy. Even red carpet events. Check it next time. Katy just walked over an ice cream dumped on the side walk! Now i understand the boots
Jm from cali
I don’t think Tom is her bio dad I mean he would’ve put up more of a fight custody wise and he didn’t. That and the whole weird pregnancy where she disappeared for a while and had an oddly shaped belly.
I’m leaning toward Joshua Jackson as her bio dad the resemblance is uncanny if you looked at pics of him as a kid and Suri. Plus the gossip of how whenever he and Katie were at the same events Tom wanted them as far apart as possible.
Suri has Tom’s face. In some photos she looks uncannily like him, no doubt there – “He is the father!”
Suri has Tom’s mother face.
Then why give up his one biological child so easily? That I will never get he cares more about his cult than his own kid?
Maybe but I also think in court it would’ve come out he wasn’t the bio dad Tom/Katie look a lot alike though
That photo of Suri hiding her face made my stomach turn over. I can’t bare it.
CB – can you stop posting pics of Suri completely? or is that unrealistic? It is painful to watch this kid be papped. I love this site but I don’t want to support photos of children who don’t want their pic taken.
Maybe someone dictated and commented/complained constantly about what Kate wore in the past, ahem. (Tom) Katie’s defiance is probably what saved her sanity and/or life. Soon as everyone quits talking about her shoes, watch the boots go away.