Nice flying jacket available at JS.

Not exactly ivy but definitely leather: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zoE-kdBCjw

Never thought of leather coats as Ivy. I have one in the wardrobe and every time I go to send it to the charity shop I try it on and it fits me perfectly and I put it back in the closet. Must be 25 years old.
At school when the boys wore fly fronted Mac's the girls were wearing leather jackets/ coats in various colours and they looked good.
I was too old and in the wrong location for Northern soul but I always thought how great was the music and how disappointing the dress sense of the dancers was. The dance routines seemed a bit iffy to me as well.

David Nowell; 'Too Darn Soulful'.  He gets details wrong and there are too many snaps of scooter boys. 

The chap chipping into the film on Wigan (YouTube viewing) makes me smile when he says, Yeah, there were lots of girls - but as friends.  Where I lived - a grubby Midland Railway suburb - wherever there was Northern Soul randiness was in the air.  There was much copping off and the first teenage pregnancies I was aware of.  We were fifteen or thereabouts.  Not too much of a drug scene for us.  That came later. 

I take Robbie's point about some of the clothing, but the girls often looked very fine indeed.

The 'Wheel' was probably of greater interest, and a lady friend once took me to look at what had once been 'The Torch'.  Now a car-park? 

As far as I know, I'll be in Nottingham on Tuesday, around Hockley to begin with and probably going to that French place just up from Slab Square for lunch.

There has also been a debate over sheepskin coats as part of the look.  Personally I think a lot depends on the quality of the coat, who is wearing it, why and where.  No-one would want to look like a Fourth Division football manager or one of the chaps you see waiting for the pub to open.  There's an illustration somewhere of an American student's standard-kit wardrobe with - surprise surprise - a sheepskin coat for those North American winters.  There is also a well-known photograph of JS wearing one.  Taken a fair few years ago.

Car coats are possibly top of my ivy you dislike list. The joy of a decent overcoat is its length. Sheepskins are a little better but I can't imagine myself ever owning one. And I'm an overcoat fanatic.

When I say car coat, I basically mean a mac style coat in wool. The ones I have are all the same length as a mac (mid leg).  I don't wear anything with a funnel neck. So these are like a Mac and may have front page pockets or side pockets (or occasionally both).  Some have a zip, some don't. But the form I refer to is a 'mac in wool' essentially.