How barbarian were the Barbarians?

[Robert Vermaat]

-- tracing back to the Sogdians, then the Alans, then to the East Germans-- that brought boots, trousers, long sleeves, even the beret and pill-box hat, into the Roman world.

Hmm, I doubt that. Trousers maybe (although steppe trouser fashion was different), but I'd say long-sleeved tunicas may have been more of a Middle eastern affair. The pillbox was from the Balkans, not from the nomad peoples or Germanics.