Day 1 (Introduction)

I am a jawnz enthusiast, and these are my stories. It was my sophomore year of high school when I first started to really pay attention to clothes. It started by reading GQ to learn how to dress better, in a very traditional way. I looked to the site for tips on what to wear to prom and other formal events, but I quickly found myself reading the site religiously every day, learning more and more about the world of fashion and material culture.
Before long, I started to look to other sites to find out even more about this newly-discovered world. The foremost of these venues was the now-defunct legendary blog Four Pins. Quickly, I found the casual and quirky writing style of guys like Jon Moy and Skylar Bergl, under the direction of Our Father and Fuck Yeah Menswear author, Lawrence "Larry" Schlossmann, more attractive than the more buttoned-up GQ pieces. However, it wasn't just the writing that separated Four Pins from the print giants - it was an obsession they had for the products, rather than the broad idea of dressing better or living a better life. This obsession is what has become known as jawnz enthusiasm, and those of us that were raised on Four Pins (along with those who raised it) call ourselves jawnz enthusiasts.
In this blog, I will write about my own experience obsessing over jawnz, from capital-F fashion brands like Louis Vuitton and Dior, to workwear staples Carhartt and Timberland, while trying to pay tribute to the writers and the blog that raised me and taught me what to call myself - a tried and true Jawnz Enthusiast.