I'm pretty certain it's just adding to your clothes/upgrading them but regardless the only thing you see is the characters current outfit choice which will be changeable later. I am not Jansu, I do not speak for Jansu but if you want to complain their discord is always open. The line as I am seeing it written in game is "Go check out the armory for your equipment" which would be the gear shop and not the barracks like the guy was thinking, it would be weird to head to a barracks and ask some dude for male armor which isn't fitted for a female #mood
pretty sure you got the key to pick up your gear so unless there's a hidden back door where i can
steal get my complimentary weapons and armor from the gear shop...
pretty sure there are female Noxians in the army (even if you haven't seen anyone except for Katarina (?) in the game)
and i'm pretty sure the armory isn't the gear shop like you say but the small guarded area in the upper right corner if you take the stairs down to the right
like i said, i don't really care, the wording just made me look