“Home Depot is your version of "Claire's Boutique". Get a frequent buyer's club, because you are going to be walking around with screws, bolts, rusty chain necklaces and other fun items. Wearing computer parts like a printer cable or network cards will assist in that cyberpunk look.” - lady_kartajian

If we want to talk about cyberpunk aesthetics, we need to talk about the Rivetheads.
The younger generation will likely never even have heard of this subculture’s name, I know it was my case before doing researches for this guide.

However, rivetheads built the foundation for almost everything which is considered remotely cyberpunk in terms of fashion, culture and even musical sense.

The name rivethead speaks of itself, similar to the punkheads or metalheads, it refers to those who listen with devotion to industrial-sounding music that gives the impression a rivet’s being screwed right into your head. Rivetheads are the spawns of industrial rock and industrial music altogether, they are the manifestation of electronic music going rogue and screaming in our ears about what society has done to us, and will continue to do it, oftentimes with a sense of shameless euphory that glorifies the horrors of industrialization and technology, and sometimes denouncing it. Both reactions are equivalent in my eyes, in the sense that they shine light on something very real but invisible to the average eye.

If you think of combat boots, black of washed-up clothes, vaguely military aesthetic coupled with PVC, shiny leather and chains topped with gasmasks and one-sided undercuts, you’re thinking of rivethead fashion.

Rivethead fashion influenced so many genres close to cyberpunk that it’s impossible to quantify its impact. Cybergoth gasmask? It was them. Black PVC tops or pants? Rivetheads. The long, black trenchcoats we see in the matrix ? Dead on.