You all got me thinking and heres the ideas I came up with. Why couldn't you make a pair of mocasins out of the thin oware pad, I'm not sure if you would sew these or not though might be able to just glue them up but hey you never know. For slipping issues use barge cement and attach some felt to the soles, thats what they put on the bottom of waders the fly fishing people use to not slip on the rocks.