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"Long before he was wearing designer suits and hosting everything from Extra! to the Miss Teen USA Pageant, he was A.C. Slater, the Jams-wearing, iron-pumping, teenage pin-up on the one and only Saved by the Bell. That&amp;#x27;s right ladies. For today&amp;#x27;s 80s fashion flashback, we&amp;#x27;ve got Mario Lopez on deck. For those of you who don&amp;#x27;t remember the sartorial statements Lopez and his character contributed to the 80s, perhaps these sporty new fall styles (made for us gals, it should be noted) will help jog your memory: While Slater&amp;#x27;s frenemy Zack Morris (aka &amp;quot;Preppy&amp;quot;) got away with pastel sweatshirts, Brooks Brothers button-downs and head-to-toe denim, Lopez had to don slightly more experimental fare including low-cut tanks, stone-washed jeans and chains. While we can&amp;#x27;t wait for the Saved by the Bell 20th anniversary and cast reunion on Jimmy Fallon (Biased side note: seriously Tiffani-Amber Thiessen, what are you waiting for? Give &amp;#x27;em the green light already! Everybody else has--even Mr. Belding!) thankfully we&amp;#x27;ve got this interview with Mario to tide us over. Read on to find out what he thought about the high-tops, Members Only jackets and Cosby sweaters he and A.C. Slater used to wear: Mario Lopez, 1992. Slaves to Fashion: Let&amp;#x27;s talk clothes. How would you describe your own personal style? Mario Lopez: I&amp;amp;#8217;m kind of in the Simon Cowell school of dressing: I always wear the same thing, t-shirts and jeans all the time. It&amp;amp;#8217;s the beauty of living in sunny L.A. STF: What labels are you loving these days? ML: My favorite t-shirts right now are LNA. They&amp;amp;#8217;re really thin and comfortable. On the show [Extra!] I wear lots of suits like John Varvatos and Hugo Boss. I&amp;amp;#8217;m pretty conservative but I like a little throw-back kind of a look. Not with a fedora or anything though. STF: How are you feeling about all these &amp;amp;#8216;80s and &amp;amp;#8216;90s styles that are coming back this season? ML: I thought &amp;amp;#8216;80s were already back? I&amp;amp;#8217;m okay with it. I was a big fan of the Members Only jackets. I was glad to hear that they were coming back. I used to have them in a bunch of different colors. In black, burgundy, off-white cream one. STF: Do you still have them? ML: No, I wish I did, then I would rock &amp;amp;#8216;em. STF: What about other old school styles? Say, for instance those baggy Hammer pants you used to wear? ML: I remember the Cavariccis were big both on and off camera. I remember we used to do this stupid little fold at the end of the pant. STF: You mean the French Cuff? ML: Yeah, the French cuff. I can&amp;amp;#8217;t believe we ever did that. Top-Siders and Vans were big then too. We used to wear them without socks. You had to put baby powder in them all the time otherwise your feet got stinky. sweaters were big, like Bill Cosby&amp;amp;#8217;s colorful sweaters. STF: Did you have any say on Slater&amp;amp;#8217;s wardrobe? ML: We didn&amp;amp;#8217;t have much input. We couldn&amp;amp;#8217;t wear a certain color because someone else was wearing that color. I didn&amp;amp;#8217;t really care, as long as it wasn&amp;amp;#8217;t too feminine looking. Other than that, I put on what they told me. But had I known it was going to be still on 20 years later, I probably would have put a little more thought into it. STF: Is there one regrettable outfit that makes you think &amp;amp;#8220;How could they have let me wear that?!&amp;amp;#8221; ML: Just about every episode. STF: Oh c&amp;amp;#8217;mon you wore them well. You must still have lots of people coming up to you still, telling you how much they loved that role. ML: Sure, yeah people loved the show. But they don&amp;amp;#8217;t comment on the wardrobe, that&amp;amp;#8217;s for sure. Did you hear that noise? That was your heart fluttering. Tell me: is there anything better that Saved by the Bell? Because I don&amp;#x27;t think there is. Who was your favorite character? Will you tune into Jimmy Fallon&amp;#x27;s cast reunion show? More Truly Outrageous 80s style flashbacks: *The Bangles on Bangles *Candace Cameron on Leggings *Tom Selleck On Floral Prints *Alyssa Milano On Acid Wash Jeans, Plaid, And Pleated Pants Get More Glamour: You could win $50,000 just for "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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