Aye~ The shoe installment! The thoughts on safety shoes were appreciated too. Are any hybrids old enough to 'need them' yet? As in of working age.

Oh, no, I meant they took a page from safety shoes and made a "light" version for everyday use that could stand up to claws xD

AH. Still, they would need safety shoes in protection eventually XD

Would be useful for winter to keep snow out of the boots too.

Which will be one of "those things":

"I don't need safety shoes!" * breaks a claw *

That doesn't answer the question of whether or not any hybrids would need to wear steel-toed boots as part of their job requirement yet. XD

I figured some for of “steel toe” shoe would be a thing. Still need to keep the claws trimmed.

As one who draws footwear on his own OC's (because I can do so well enough that viewers can often recognize the real-life styles I use as reference), I tend to handwave the issue of claws (while having it 'known' in-universe that the vast majority of other furry OC's are full-time barefooters, not to mention digitigrade).

Where was I going with this...?
Oh right <clears throat>...

I would think that the issue of claws would be dealt with initially by simply taking them into account when measuring to determine a proper shoe size, picking a size that doesn't result in the claws being butted against the interior of the toe box. If anything, the tips of the claws usually curl downward and might be an issue for the front of the insoles. If the claw tips are pointed forward, the normal fastenings would tend to restrain the foot from cramming them against the front of the shoe (assuming it's sized to take them into account).

But maybe I'm overthinking stuff, my line of thought would gloss over one of the more obvious ways of depicting this society's adjustments to the hybrid phenomenon .