Sandals

Overview
Sandals are a type of footwear in Our Worldly Woes.

Description
Popular summer outdoors footwear. Flexible, but sturdy rubber sole with a soft foam footbed. Many straps to keep the foot securely in place, and exposed design to promote ventilation in warmer weather, as well as fast-drying when wet. Well-built and not prone to sudden breakage. Reliably protects only the sole of the foot due to it's open-heel and -toed construction.

Characteristics

 * Does not hinder sprinting speed, and actually allows for a more longer sprint duration than is possible with barefoot, if inexperienced with barefoot running. Longer duration than with Simple sandals
 * This footwear has a very low water resistance rating but dries fast enough to offset this *footwear drying rates are synonymous with the feet wearing them. Feet always dry faster than any footwear so wearing wet footwear means wet feet until the footwear has dried*
 * With the feet securely in place and combined with an impact-absorbing midsole, the noise level is heavily minimized when compared to other open-toed footwear
 * Given its solid build, it doesn't look prone to falling apart after light use
 * Can be worn with socks to boost noise muffling a slight bit more

Health conditions:

 * Stubbed toe can randomly be acquired from wearing these, but less likely than with flip-flops or slides

Strategy
Sandals, while a huge upgrade over any kind of flip-flop, slipper, or slide, are not the ideal footwear to wear when society is crumbling and your feet -your most crucial means of transportation - need extra protection. The open toes are just asking to get stubbed and cut up. Your feet will surely turn into blocks of ice in cold weather. However, the value of having a piece of footwear that does its main job adequately and doesn't hinder movement is priceless. Now this is a piece of footwear that can arguably work double-duty as a camp shoe when resting and letting other footwear dry, as well as also being competent enough to wear when undertaking slightly riskier endeavors. Socks can be worn with them to improve noise muffling, and it's quality build means they can be relied on to not disintegrate at the sight of slightly more physically demanding situations. There are loads of better things to equip your feet with, and this is certainly still a lower tier piece of footwear when all is considered, but the jump in quality from flip-flops and other similar footwear to these is appreciable.

Item exceptions:

 * This is an outer layer piece of footwear - meaning no other footwear can be worn over it.