Louis-Dreyfus is begging people not to wear ’90s looks like audiences see on “Seinfeld.”

Seinfeld star Julia Louis-Dreyfus reacts to people dressing like her Elaine: ‘I’m just so f---ing sorry’

Louis-Dreyfus is begging people not to wear '90s looks like audiences see on "Seinfeld."

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Julia Louis-Dreyfus pictured as Elaine on 'Seinfeld' and as herself at a gala in October. Credit:

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*Seinfeld* star Julia Louis-Dreyfus didn't mean to doom us to a world of oversized blazers and floral dresses. Really.

"I don't know what to say," Louis-Dreyfus said on Tuesday's episode of Amy Poehler's *Good Hang* podcast. "I'm just so f---ing sorry. I really, really am."

Louis-Dreyfus, who won an Emmy Award and earned six more nominations for her portrayal of Elaine Benes on the NBC sitcom that aired from 1989 to 1998, had just been reminded of her character's look and the fact that it was back in style again.

"Listen, if anybody in America is listening to this," the *National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation* star said, "please don't do the '90s again."

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Poehler noted that Elaine is also a popular Halloween costume and one that's easy to put together: "It's a dress and a blazer and a curly-haired wig."

Louis-Dreyfus' memory of the aesthetic was not a happy one.

"God, I'd love to go back and fix that look," she said.

While Poehler lamented some of the early looks that she had worn on her own later sitcom, *Parks and Recreation*, as Leslie Knope, Louis-Dreyfus said they had simply not been paying attention to that.

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"When *Friends* came out, at some point when we were doing *Seinfeld*, not in the beginning. I can't remember what the years were, all those girls were so sexy," Louis-Dreyfus said. "And I remember thinking like, 'Ah, f---, I should have been sexy!'"

She joked that she should have worn tight jeans, bared her midriff, or "anything."

It was Poehler who reminded her that she was pregnant with her two sons during her time as Elaine.

Jason Alexander, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Michael Richards, and Jerry Seinfeld on 'Seinfeld'.

Gino Misfud/NBC/Courtesy Everett Collection

Besides, Poehler added, Elaine's style, like her way of dancing, is what makes her who she is on the show that costarred Jerry Seinfeld as Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander as George Costanza, and Michael Richards as Cosmo Kramer.

"But that's why we love Elaine. We love her because of that. Because she feels like us," Poehler said. "She feels like someone we would know and love. She feels like our funniest friend.”

Poehler said the character "wouldn't work" if Elaine was paying attention to fashion. "It never would work."**

Listen to their full conversation above.**

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