Although ponies are somewhat less concerned about fashion today than they were in the Golden Age, interest in the topic is increasing, especially in the cities, and ponies are actually more likely to wear clothes at the present than at any time in their cultural memory.

Ponies are especially likely to wear clothing when traveling (see also Barding) as a practical measure against the elements, since effective weather control no longer exists and they are frequently subject to the harsh desert sun. Most of this clothing is relatively simple; members of the upper class are more likely to travel in an enclosed vehicle in their normal clothes.

Despite the general practicality of traveling dress, boots and socks are out of conventional fashion, due to their association with sufferers of hoofrot; showing a well-trimmed and intact hoof, unscarred by disease, manual labor or extensive travel on hoof is fashionable and a mark of the higher socioeconomic classes. Horseshoes, however, have remained in demand. Working ponies use them to bear the brunt of their labour and reduce hoof fatigue; for appearance-minded ponies, quality horseshoes are a statement of wealth that keep their hooves pristine.

Mane and tail styles are becoming more elaborate with each season, or at least so it seems to many observers of urban fashion. A fancy mane style, seemingly defying the laws of physics, is essential especially to the upper-class urban mare; the rural gentry have remained generally more subdued. The wearing of tinsel in the mane, an ancient fashion of the Ponyland nobility, has come back into vogue.