I swear it's a natural evolution for alternative kids with sewing skills to turn historical.

This is so funny. Back when I was in the Army in Germany in the 70's I dressed very much like you do but now that I am 70 and living in California's wine country I dress like a role-playing goth metal-head. One never knows--do one?

Think of it like this: all those phases you have gone through were necessary for you to become who you are now

This video is sooo adorable! By the way, I work in a bespoke atelier and I could say THE BEST things we ever made were for ex-metalhead and ex-tolkienist IT guys. I guess there's something about this fantasy and historic background they have make their taste more sophisticated and eccentric in a good way.

I remember when i was a teenager.. I got so into a gang member look like.. Ya know representative and all that shit.. Baggy jeans, tank tops and big necklace and stuff.. Mostly influence by gta crap.. And i remember watching godfather once.. And was so intrigued with the way they dress.. All suits and formal looks.. And I dive straight into formal wear.. I made mistakes here and there when i was younger but learned from it and keep on improving my style.. Needless to say.. I am really into classic menswear now.. And i would love to thank you for sharing your story! And also you have been influencing me into improving my style..

It is always fascinating to see how each person's style develops over the years! I have noticed that many vintage people seem to originally come from the goth or metal communities, and I thought it interesting that you did too. Thanks for sharing your transformation!

As I'm nurse and busy still I have sometime to watch your vedio. Stay all at home and safe ❤

I love classic style but also my long hair. I would never get rid of it. Your transformation is stunning by the way and I love your style. Cheers, Niklas!

I commend you for posting pictures of your transformation. I hate having my picture taken so there aren't a lot out there. Never would have taken you for a metal head but then, you can't always judge a book by its cover.

A similar transformation has happened to me, although I'm a few levels less formal in my style. However I do have an acquaintance who was and still is associated with the metal community, although he's gone into politics and has been mayor/royal secretary for a time so seeing his formal style evolution was interesting for me to follow. It's really interesting how noticeable it is when someone genuinely likes this style and knows the rules, compared to only doing it out of necessity, especially in politics with people wearing plain black suits etc.

Funny how my fraternity was also the real start for of my classic menswear journey. I guess it’s a great starting point for a bunch of guys.

Okay but the Aesthetic of you today, looking super Dapper and Vintage- to the dulcet tones of Early 2000s Heavy Metal just warms my heart.

your beard is like a pokemon which has evolved over the years

I’ve been interested in vintage mens wear since transitioning at 16, as well as collecting antiques. Currently 20 and I’m glad to have an exquisite number of vintage clothings, I can’t imagine wearing shorts and a tee shirt in public again.

You shouldn't be ashamed of the past you! Nothing wrong in being a long-hired metalhead! I'm on this way now from full-on 80-s metal gear to classic vintage look, but I don't think I'll ever fully cut my hair. Cheers!

That’s a real Fritz Lang, Dr Mabuse look, your first vintage photo. Great era for men’s clothes.

I’m only just discovering your channel today. You are providing such a great service to men everywhere. Oh, by the way, hallo from Fredericksburg, Texas. Don’t be so hard on your chin, brother. It’s stronger than you think. You look sharp in the photo with the mustache. I’m so grateful to have found your channel. Looking forward to learning from you.

Honestly this is how Iam. I went into my emo phase (6, 7th grade), semi normal/metal phase (7 - 10th grade), back to emo (10th grade), grunge / 90s phase (11- 12th grade and two years afterwards) and now its a mixture of historical, goth and metal. Im sure I'll be hisotrical in a few years but it seems us alternative kids turn out to be historical in the end haha 😂

I’m still a Goth/Metalhead there’s nothing wrong with that and loving different clothing styles as well. 🤘🏻

I learned a lot from this... but one of the biggest lessons was the confirmation that we are our own harshest critic! I think you started looking more like you do now before you recognised it ^_^

Great to see your tranformation over the years and the courage and honesty to share where you've come from with others. Thanks for this.

Similar transformation here. I've had long (and very curly) hair for six years throughout school. I cut it off in my graduation year (just a month after my "Maturaball", timing is not my greatest strength). It was around that time, that I bought my first three-piece-suit with a pocket square. But I really got into powerlifting/strongman the following years, so I just couldn't find fitting suits anymore. Thanks to you I found Hockerty though, which was the real start for my classic menswear/vintage journey. Now I mainly wear pre-1950s-style work and student wear (1930s especially, due to their roomy pants). Even my gym attire has switched more to a vintage-inspired outfit to complement my handlebar moustache. So take this as a big thank you for playing a large role in my style journey. PS: If you still update your shop list, you might want to check out Labour Union and Oldfield Clothing.

Always nice to see that everybody has made a journey until they are at the place they are now. I also like your statement that you are still a metalhead even tough one may not see it from what you are wearing.

It's courageous of you to make this video. Well done.

Pretty much the exact same story as with myself, except I always despised Soulfly (especially when compared to the first three or four Sepultura albums) ;) Nice to know I'm not the only Metalhead who made this transition.

Vintagebursche would make a terrific 'King Charles1' of England in a movie, with his looks, manner and grace.👌

11:42 you look straight out of peaky blinders, very cool picture and outfit!

Binge watching your vids. Your metal to vintage journey makes me very happy. I just KNEW you were a badass at heart. I mean, how could you not be 🖤

it was so fun to see the transformation! and knowing that you made mistakes a long the way and it wasn't an overnight transformation is comforting to me as I dive into vintage fashion. I love your style

Danke für die klasse Videos. Du bist eine große Inspiration! Keep on the great work, my friend.

I think a good way of looking at it is this: the best way to live a happy life when it comes to dressing, is to dress in whatever way brings you most happiness at the time. As we change through our lives, so does the aesthetic/look that brings us the most happiness, and that's okay. So there's no reason to cringe if you were dressing goth/emo/lolita/prep/anything in the past. Just because that wouldn't make you happy today doesn't mean it is embarrassing; it made you happy at the time and that's what matters. I've spent a lot of time with older folks and one thing I've learned from them is that all the worrying about what's cool or refined or whatever ends up seeming sillier and sillier the more perspective you gain in life. So just dress in whatever way you can that will make you happiest and don't worry about the future you, because there's no one "right" direction in your outfitting journey, just a lot of fun islands you can visit and even carry souvenirs as you keep traveling.

This is delightful, especially I think it was helpful for the critiques to show you also learned the silhouettes and fitting. I do enjoy your grandfathers suit, it’s a lovely colour of blue I do hope you kept it ❤. I also had a crazy changing of styles and it’s funny as a trans man many young women and young gay people in general in my personal life look to me for some reason 😅 and I always show them photos of myself as a younger to show them “I have never had idea what I’m doing, I’m just not afraid to look stupid, I just want to look happy”. Now as a trans man trying to explore vintage menswear and more importantly how proper styling and fitting should work, i appreciate your insight and your attention to detail in your work!

I am also a metalhead with long hair. Because my girlfriend is a vintage fans, I start to inform myself of the vintage stuffs. In your video I see my future 😆

Great achievement. I adore people who are able to invent themself new and find a more satisfying way of clothing. I myself struggle for a year now to establish kinda of 40s wardrobe and know how difficult that can be. I am soooo far away from that I want to be yet.

Great video, I remember in the mid-2000s thinking black on black was amazing. I only recently started trying to dress with a bit more style, I wear a suit every day to the office and started to notice this does look right or this bit isn't made as well. So I went to KZfaq and I started to research what I need to do to get a better fit. It's nice to see that as I go along this journey I can expect ups and downs.

Wow, I just discovered your channel and am utterly amazed at how much knowledge you harbour about classic menswear. I’m a lady interested in becoming a stylist, particularly a menswear stylist, and I just wish I knew someone as knowledgeable as you to study and learn under! Every little detail from sleeve lengths to pocket square folds to fabrics and textiles... I wish to know it all as in depth as you do one day. The devil is in the details... You’re terrific and you look absolutely brilliant! I admire this vintage style so much, I think every man looks stunning and so perfectly put together from that era. Gorgeous work! Thank you from Canada! 👍🏻🇨🇦

I love your videos! I've been dressing in a vintage style for 7 years and I love seeing people's transition into vintage ✨

Super that you captured some of the photos, plus the transformation from where you have come to now, brilliant video..stay safe

You have come a loooooong way! A vast improvement and you have found an easy going, yet highly presentable personal style along that way.

In my experience is the same when look back on older outfits, i guess we improve over time! Love your channel! Please... consider make a vid about "Making of Detachable Collar or stiff collars" im having difficulties on that, and it will great for me and i guess for others too. Really appreciate your work!!! Best regards from Argentina.

Love the outfit. The jacket, the shirt, the tie are amazing! Congratulations from Portugal.

Hello Niklas, I just discovered your channel and this was the first video that was recommended. I am also a metalhead and in the past 5 years have been discovering classic menswear and how to put together different outfits. My interest actually began with boots, since I wanted to buy some quality leather boots for going to metal concerts, and started to learn what are the main features to look for. From then on, it was all the way to the rabbit hole. I still have my long hair (not cutting it anytime soon), wear earrings on and off, have lots of metal t-shirts; but also have some many dress shirts, a bespoke suit, and a growing collection of classic shoes out of which 2 are shell cordovan (one of them of course a pair of boots lol). Learning about style and menswear have made me more conscious of how to show part of myself in a fun and versatile way, while investing in quality items and vintage stuff. I am happy to know that there are more like me on this journey for self-expression. All the best from Peru!

Thanks for sharing your transformation with us! I have a friend that lives in Hamburg that would probably love your channel, going to send them some of your videos. 💞 from 🇭🇲 Australia

I'm so pleased you showed the pictures; putting aside the physical pain it causes you: we've all wore shocking (still wear? hopefully not;-)) combinations. I've been on a sartorial journey over the past 3 or 4 years and I now know that classic men's style is firmly where I want to be going. What is clear from the images you've showed here, is that it is often takes several years to gather the knowledge and know how, and the clear sartorial direction to be able to pull off men's classic style. I have suits that I bought a year or 2 ago - most of which are vintage/second hand/ thrift shop and modified by a tailor, that I am not really 100% happy with. I like the way you describe your journey and that mistakes will be made and even 'backward' steps made. I think this makes for a better and deeper understanding of what really works. Again, I enjoy the content and hope to see more like this in the future. Keep safe, as they say - but that's important! I'm self-isolating abut may don a Spring jacket when I'm able to buy a loaf ;-) Tony

Sir , love the shirts with the detachable collars . I have started wearing them . It was a pleasure to watch this video .

where you went from Metalhead to Fraternity is quite a twist! 😂

Thanks for opening up and sharing. A road well travelled... You looked great in your first job

The last photo of you (along with what you currently were wearing) showed how handsome you are. Everything just fit together well. I think one needs to try things on to see how they look together!

Oh man, you have get your skills developed great deal, Nobody but nobody could criticised your evolution since it is all yours ❤❤

My favourite outfits are the white jacket you're wearing as you talk in this video, and the pinstripe Supply Suit from 2017. You don't age! Good for you.

Great video, thanks. We all have ‘those’ outfits that cause us physical pain in our past.

Congrats queen 🙌💅

my dad has always represented classy menswear so well. he's completely got the craft down. even though i'm female, i admire his fashion so much i started dressing more like him

You are to be commended sir , an amazing transformation .

Your actual style is impeccable.

I love all your Looks! Most people go through different looks throughout their life. I know I have, and I look back at all my looks fondly...👍

I am so glad you transformed yourself! Ausgezeichnet!

I like the classic look to it. I cant tell ur dressing vintage its more classic and i love it

Interessante Entwicklung hast du durchgemacht ^^ sympatisch in allen stadien der Transformation.

Always entertaining and fascinating to see a personal development in fashion style. I guess most people think "Oh my gosh!" 🤦‍♀️ 🤦‍♂️when seeing older photos, but you're right, thats how you develop your style. I think wearing a kilt to a Abiball is a great idea. 😁 And i also liked the black Hugo Boss suit! You look comfortable in this outfit. (Although being comfy is not the main goal in a suit, right? 😄) I learned the word dimple in this video. 😘

So cool to see your glow-up! I've also got teenage long hair, and as much as I like the rockstar/knight/pirate/viking vibes, it certainly doesn't look classy, and there's no way to style it with a suit. I'm getting kinda tired of it and I think it's time for short hair again.

Very fun video! I really love how you look in that fox brown? color with the color of your hair & beard!

Super videoblog! Danke für die Infos. Für mich ist dein Homepage auf deutsch hilfreicher, aber durch deine Videos habe ich Lust gekriegt englisch zu lernen. Du bist lustig!

I love your transformation. You speak English beautifully. Congratulations.

Love how the pocket square from your suit in 2015 looks like the black lodge symbol 🤣

Nice transformation! Nothing better than the present fashion stage…

This video is very helpful since I have 3 son's. Thank you.

you are so sophisticated, and handsome too !!

My birthday is tomorrow and what a great BD present, not just a new video but hearing about your journey. Frankly I laughed so hard seeing your early photo that I had to pause the video till I could breathe normally again. But you should see how I dressed as a young person, you'd laugh too.

I was thinking on your pointing out 'my suits are way to large for me' and looking at the shoulders and it looked ok. And then .... wow! The difference between 5:50 and 7:15, just gobsmacked me right out.

You remind me of my brother in law, makes me love your channel even more haha

love the mustache and beard!

I found your channel at CoCoVid, men's wear is not my main interest but I wanted to compliment you on your sartorial skill and I'll be catching your videos in the future.

Wow, you can be proud of your journey, what a change, you've learn a lot ! ... Not enough knickerbockers for my taste, but don't worry, it's not your fault, even in the stories of Tim und Schtruppi, there's not enough knickerbockers for me :-))))

This might be the biggest, most amazing transformation I've ever seen!

Congratulation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I think you look great with short hair! Very smart.

After watching a lot of your and Gentlemen's Gazette's videos, I realise as a larper and metal fan, that the time for washed out band shirts and uncormfortable jeans will finally be over.

I wish I had a foto from one of my go to styles in 2008/2009, white shirt, flared jeans (a little bit to long and with a high rise) and my long long hair in my natural color without any kind of hairdo, openly flying in the wind. I often got told, I looked like a kid from the 70ies. Loved it!! Now my hair got chopped off a few years ago and my outfit is very different.😄😉 I couldn't decide as a young adult, who I was. So I heard Rock and Punk, dressed normal or like a kid from the 70ies and let my hair grow as long as it could get. 😄 Maybe I will start someday and wear vintage, but for now, I really love my stuff that I now have, for example my green and black stripped knitted sweater that's a little bit Punk and my nice warm boots. Maybe when I could sew properly, my outfits will change, because I have the possibility to get something in my size and price range and maybe alter it. But until then, I will enjoy my stuff I already have.

Excellent video, thanks! I have decided to invest in bespoke clothingbecause of your channel! One small remark concerning your otherwise excellent English...when you say 'apparently' I believe you mean 'obviously' or 'clearly'. Keep up the good work!

We all have a past. Don’t be shamed of who you were or looked like. People change over time. What you look like and are into doesn’t take anything away from who you are as a person.

You look great!

I hope you still play tabletop games on occasion, of that's what the "RPG" in the title means, they're very fun!

Im on the same process 😂 old trad goth, but now changing to a inspired everyday barock/ rokoko style ☺️

Pretty cool... In this same time, I went from looking like a vagabond in worn out denim and nasty dreads to today where I look like a friar rubbing wood. Traded the denim in for sackcloth and the nappy dreads all grew together in to 1 big dread. Although I don't really listen to metal anymore it is mostly the Psalter for me, but I do like bardcore instrumental metal covers

You appear to be quite fond of black neckties over the years. Continuing in this vein, black and white photography may influence the vintage style of today. Certainty many clothes, particularly outer garments, would have been dark for practical reasons in the age of coal especially among the less affluent, but I suspect that vivid colours would have been present if only as accents. Antique and vintage upholstery and drapery have a subdued pallet, however here time and sunlight are the cause. On disassembly the original colours were often found to be rich and bright. Victoria's mourning had a substantial influence on all fashion in the UK, but I was under the impression that subsided by the end of the Great War. Perhaps you have some insight on this subject. Many thanks.

dein bart sieht so gut aus in dem video, in kombination mit der leicht rausgewachsenen frisur

Great walk through time video!....may I ask , do you use beard/moustache wax to get that sharp defined look?..( especially the moustache!👍)

Hot damn!!!!. Pic from 2015 is very fine. Congrats on the human version of Pokémon evolution

I've just have a look on your Instagram. Awesome stuff there

Hard metal punk transform into 1920’s classic gentleman. Triple- Cool! 🤘🤘🤘

I just found your videos via a random comment on Karolina Zebrowska's channel. Here to stay now! 😁

I have long hair (don't plan on cutting it) but wear mostly 1920s inspired garb, so I try to make it fit without changing too much. My phillosophy is to basically make everything else in my outfit period appropriate (or as appropriate as possible) but just assume I just happened to be a long-haired dandy or something lol

Mr. Vintagebursche, You are so interesting and mannerly... and handsome.

5:46 I have a different opinion on the black shirt. It looks orginial to me. I must admit that the whole lacks some color and the fit could be better. But I like it well in the end, especially the long hair (even if it might be cared a little more, like the grooming).

Raphael von Gentleman's Gazette hat dich in einem Video erwähnt und was soll ich sagen... ich bin HOOKED! :D

Au Banan extrem tolle Stiltransformation

Soulfly is a great band!

Really great video! It is fun to see the masters transformation. We all start somewhere and I myself started wearing ties everyday since I was 12 years old. Looking back I also regret my former haircut, I looked like a Beatles member.

Der Flanellanzug gewinnt für mich trotz Deiner kritischen Dekonstruktion 😉 Herzliche Grüße von einem Co-Metalhead.