I'm taking Season 1 as a fine example. No matter how you look at Mac. He's still in style with his brown leather jacket, jeans/cargo. His haircut back then was not as different as whatever you see people have today.

While the female fashion changed dramatically. You'd find it odd to see how they wear their hair, make-up, clothing (especially the colors).

It's nice seeing the changes over the years. Something that worth remembering

Aren't the 80's back in style at the moment? or was that a quick fad?

Anyway, blue jeans and a leather jacket never goes out of style.

But MacGyver style is alway in fashion for me. I grew up with the 80's style and still like to this day.

Well I think the look for now is faded jean washes and well-tailored jeans- unlike that late 90's to early 00's thing with carpenter jeans that were baggy as heck and terrible looking. Clarks are in style, at least in midwest America among college aged kids, so that's pretty Macish. I could pull off dressing like first season Mac and probably get away with it. A pronounced mullet though is still pretty no-no, at least anywhere but the south I mean, you had the 60's to early 90's where long hair of some kind was always the look. Well in the mid nineties it went to short haircuts for guys. People like Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, and Anderson himself ditched long hair as a thing of the past. You can even watch Home Improvement and see the movement unfold as all of the boys gradually had a new look by the late nineties.
Plaid/flannel was a huge no-no for the early 00's and suddenly it came back, both scene kids and mainstream high school/college fashion embraced it's return in different styles. Hollister, Pac Sun, and American Eagle, to name a few, all embraced that. Heck, even the vest has been put on the shelves a few years in a row now. As for being mainstream again, that probably won't happen.
This is all a little out of order, but hopefully it will still be coherent. Anyway, the high tops he switched to are very much a scene kid/urban fashion thing, meaning middle class white people are going to be looked at a little funny in hi tops, but whatever lol, they are on the shelves for sale, that's what matters. Finish Line and any other shoe store has retro 80's Nike hi tops for sure.
Brown leather jackets I see way less frequently than the black ones that are still, as has been said, a classic look with a pair of blue jeans.
Highlighted hair for men is pretty much out for now, but that one comes and goes too. Eh, what do I know, I'm just a college student exposed to a narrow portion of the world, but I can speak for about 3 states in the US
I don't buy specifically things Mac wore (although someone did once up and give me a brown bomber jacker, I was like "!!!" I didn't say out loud "Yay, now I can look like MacGyver!")
Really I just try to buy utilitarian stuff like he did. 5 pocket fashion jeans (AE just happens to carry my relatively uncommon size- 30x34) and then I buy leather sketchers- they're actually really durable and fashionable at the same time. And stealthy, since they're black, you know, for when I have to sneak into a convention center to steal a Ming Dragon
So yeah, I think in part Mac fashion can be integrated into modern fashion for sure- but to outright say it is "back" per se may be a little wishful. But boy there is nothing I would love more than to see the return of 80's fashion lol. Actually, thinking back, last summer Express had a LOT of 80's fashion they were trying to reintroduce. Everything from white pants and sports coats to colored jeans, it was definitely tempting until I saw the price tags.

nice speculation macdriver

Mullet is a no-go. LOL Mac shouldn't had done that in the show but whatever. He's still mac who cares.

A pair of nice tailored jeans that fits can wear forever if the colors don't fade, which usually isn't the case.

The colors back then were all washed out, not sure if that's because of the old film.

Black and grey can never go wrong these days..

I personally like chino pants better, not that I don't like jeans - chinos is less noticeable after fading...not a big fan of cargo pants..

I was watching an episode with my girlfriend recently and I had to pause it to run into the kitchen for something, and I hear her shriek, "Oh, dear God! I just noticed he's wearing white socks with black pants... 80s attack!!!!" So, yeah, I guess that's another fashion no-no these days.

You were probably watching one of the later episodes of season 3. Mac wore his black flight jacket with black jeans and black sneakers, the only thing you can see is is bright white socks! Ok I admit it, I have the same outfit...I don't see anything wrong with it!

The man no matter what he wears is still MacGyver. I don't care if he has a tuxedo, with tail. It is still MacGyver. Unless he is wearing a marine uniform then he is Jack O'Neill. Doesn't make any difference to me. He looks good wearing whatever he wants to wear.

I never cared on how he looked on the show. Though to me his white T-Shirt and jeans is what made "Mac" to me. And maybe the cargo but I've always been in favor of the jeans. That should've been like his standard outfit for all the cooler episodes like Passages, Good Knight MacGyver and The Stringer as it was but there were so many others. Of course it's got to fit in the time's fashion.

What I am concerned, I'd like to stick with black. The whole works... black. As far as the haircut goes. Think I'm off the fifth season mania. Been to the barbershop only twice last year. During the summer I could hardly see. Like to go for the seventh season hairstyle either that or a bit shorter. Shorter anyways. After three months it's as long as it actually should be to look perfect.

Do have to admit I'd liked Brad Pitt's style in The Devil's Own. I don't think long hair is a thing of the past. It's something you choose to like or not. I decided to like it. Most of my friends are always complaining about it and that I should go more often to take a haircut. But why? What for? It's taking or leaving it, with me. I don't mind or care if it falls over my eyes, I think it should stay moveable. Maybe I should try Brendan Fraser's style or Antonio Banderas? I also did like James Read's style back in the 80's. (We all might better know him as George Hazard from North and South.)

Mac fashion is definately back. In the UK anyway, the trainers Nike have now brought out the retro range, looking just like Macs old white ones with querky new colours. I had to smirk when I saw them, the old jeans, bombers, all back. The hair...almost!

The 80's will always be in style

See, for me MacGyver hardly ever looked like he was "of the Time" or dated now. He always said "I've never given much thought to what I wear..." and that fit. RDA is comfortable in anything he wears and his uneffortless style that it makes whatever he wears on any show non-fad. By not trying to keep up with the latest fads you avoid looking outdated later.
Since I was a kid I was told I looked enough like him so it was helpful to see what I could look like if I wore what he wore. He has been my test run to see what I can and shouldn't wear. I had long hair and was proud of it but cut it when I felt I had it long enough. Luckily, it was also when it had gone out of style. Most of my style matches the undated look that RDA has includeing most of what he wore on MacGyver. I have most of what he wore/wears today and I'm proud that I resemble my idol naturally and coinidently. That being said there are only a few moments when his look didn't work for me then or now. In the third season he wore on one episode puffy white socks over the cuffs of his sweats. That was a 80 hockey thing so no big deal. As far as hair goes he was smart to always update it but there is a time in the 4th season(ala Runners) he was doing a feathery,swoop bang thing that I never liked. Like too much time was spent on his hair(so unlike him) and during season 5 (ala Second Chance,Children of Light)at one point his hair got too long and hung like greasy snot. He even makes the joke about it saying "...And I need a haircut!" in Serenity. I remember thinking that was a wink to the audience who thought so. The good news is that by the end of both seasons it got fixed. His hair was even longer and bushier in the movies but I thought it looked good. There was a style to it comparitively. I was sad when RDA cut it short just because I dread change but now know it was the right thing to do. I also now enjoy the joys of nonfuss short hair. LOL! One of the things I learned from MacGyver was that you don't have to or shouldn't dress to be iconic and stand out. If you are iconic in who you are and what you do then the common, casual clothing that you wear becomes the cool style others copy.

I would to this day, though, LOVE to find out where to buy the white button down sweat shirt he would lounge around in during seasons 3 and 4. I could never find it anywhere.

I love 80's style. But thats because I grew up on it.

So did I. And you know what they say what is old is new again.