Spendthrift:
Loafers.
Sometimes longwings
Button down shirts (but mods like fitted)
PLAIN crew, mock and polo neck sweaters
Those new overcoats
Raincoats
Socks
Desert boots
Harringtons

I would respectfully argue that the items on that list are not exclusively Mod (especially socks  ). Apart from mock neck sweaters there’s nothing on there that isn’t Ivy. There’s always been a big crossover between the two styles in the UK … no big news there. Ivy is often a route taken by Mods who want to start dressing in a more grown up way. The raincoats and overcoats are styled on a traditional English cut, they’re too short for my liking but then most of the coats being made these days are like that, all they are doing is producing something that will sell in today’s market.

Not everything on sale in JS is my cup of tea, but then it never has been. 

When I start walking in there and the Small Faces are playing on the stereo, there are roundels up on the wall and they are selling sculpted jackets with cloth covered buttons then I think things will have changed sufficiently for me to be able to relate to some of the distorted comments I read on here.

Spenders - I asked what items were specifically Mod, so we’re both right really. Anyway the point is that the shop is not a destination for Quadrophenia re-enactors.

'So maybe he's just a famous face worth an Instagram shot? He probably gets the same in the cake shop down the road. I'm sure the regulars don't panic over it becoming a mod bakery.'

If the bakery were in Derbyshire I could imagine one of the regulars doing exactly that.

'Really, I think both JS and 'mods' have their own thing going and apart from the odd Paul Weller photo opportunity, don't really cross paths too often.'

I suspect a certain segment of the mod market has become and will remain important for JS. I don't think his shops have ever been like O'Connell's where the only changes are button stance, lapel width etc on sack jackets. The shops move with the times whilst retaining their ivy-based character. Hence he's stayed in business all these years.

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If The Prince of Belsize, at eighty-plus, does well, it has my blessing and no mistake.

I like the jib of that upstart George Bernard Shaw.....

There is - and has been - crossover in the UK.  That cannot be denied.  But, being far away from London, I never see men looking like 'Mods' or anything remotely close to it, standard outfit being cheap baseball cap (put me off entirely), thermal jacket, Matalan jeans with puddle, plastic 'trainers'.  I see photographs online from time to time and take note.  But, like many others, I settled into a look some years ago - and there's nothing really 'Mod' about it, except for loafers.  A button-down shirt is now ubiquitous, is it not?  I was chatting to a chap (older than me by ten years, more or less) in Oxfam last week.  He was wearing a button-down shirt but in no sense was he 'Ivy', 'Preppie' or anything of the kind.  About a million and one shirts now have a pointless button-down collar.
I saw a photograph of Roy Lichtenstein yesterday, wearing a chambray shirt with a modest spread collar.  It looked good on him.  Even some of the older American shirts I have seem poorly designed around the collar area: too stiff by far.  In fact, a modest B.D.Baggie is sometimes better than an overblown Sir Pendleton. 
I say 'settled into'.  But I'm always reviewing.

Yuca, if you had been out and about in Beeston last Saturday, late morning into lunchtime, you might have noticed a Paul Stuart flecked sweater with shawl collar, accompanied by dark 501s and Walk Over bucks.
That wouldn't have been a 'Mod' of course.

My Aquascutum raincoat was taking a rest in the restaurant.  My Stetson cap was flung carelessly onto the back seat of our ancient VW.

I haven't seen them Stax but it might be what I'm looking for. They seem to be offering a fourth colour Coco? I would need to visit the shop for such a purchase.

Are they only sold in one leg length?

I think they are, I bought a pair last year, I was after a 31/32" leg length as I like to wear jeans slightly shorter, but these are around 33/34" which isn't really a problem as I'm 33" inside leg.

Also 30'' on a good day. Frighteningly, I managed to get a turn up on a pair of 30'' Levis the other day.

32'' or 34'' inside leg is a strange choice for a Japanese brand. No? Granted, it's an easy fix. But still, £20 odd extra you'd be factoring in.

Uniqlo did some really nice chinos a few months ago. Only £35, but only 34'' leg. They weren't worth £55 to me.

And it's cheaper bought (trouva) elsewhere

I hate when I see something better than the version of the same item I actually own.

Excuse my garbled, Chablis infused sentence. I shall explain.

I threw away a perfectly good seersucker jacket as I fell out of love with it. Why, I can't remember.

I then splurged and bought a Drakes version. Rather smart but exceptionally heavy. No good really for the height of summer.

Finally I ended up with a J Keydge version. Lovely. Completely satisfied until I saw a version in John Simons window the other day. Lovely colour ways. I need this jacket badly.