Together with Gothic and cyberpunk elements they accomplish effect of postindustrial nomad, you know, a guy who tries to survive in post-atomic desolation; he's ripped off his clothes from a dead man, and eats radioactive honey and locusts.
Self-stylists and subcultures members uses dark, thick fabric, they wear layers (nomad omnia sua secum portat), they add fluorescent gadgets, a little bit of metal and an appropriate, often deconstructed t-shirt and viola - we look like a hybrid of John the Baptist and Mad Max.
Carobs or grasshoppers? Asks the long haired, misanthropic, Neo-Curmudgeonly hermit of the desert.