@Brainless-Mind
Having now thought about it a bit, here’s my opinion:
horseshoes
are a roughly crescent strip of strong material (usually metal) intended to be attached to the bottom of hooves, or the shape/symbol associated with those. They are not
hoof shoes
or
shoes
.
hoof shoes
are wearable items that cover more of the hoof and are not affixed to them (can be readily taken off).
hoof boots
are similar but go farther up the leg, in the same way shoes
and boots
are different.
hoof shoes
could be tagged along with shoes
if their design resembles a pony adaptation of humanesque shoes, eg. with soles, or heels, a tongue, or laces, or velcro, etc. A hoof shoe design that is unlike humanesque shoes, such as princess shoes
, should not get the tag shoes
.