btw this is probably the most accurate goth/goth incarnation i've seen. you know a real fuckin nerd is behind this, using the gothic alphabet, adding that fibula, giving them lancia and spatha...
this is the same with hot topic goths. the roman emperors employed treaty barbarians, but provided almost all the military equipment. the "goth" helmet depicted here and generally associated with barbarians is in fact a wholly roman design. extant examples almost all have fabricae-marks, even outside roman borders.
hot topic goths are "equipped" from the heap of stock hot topic provides. in a sense, they do not "hire" goths, they make them from members of the reserve army of labor (who are considered much the same by the ruling class these days)