Over WHICH shoulder??

[Tattoo Bradley]

Left it is.

[caig]

Sorry I must disagree with you guys. It is correct for the wife of the Clan Chief to wear a sash over the left shoulder, as do ladies who are members of the Royal Scottish Country Dance Society ( dont know why). Other ladies wear it over the right shoulder. All gentlemen wear a plaid at the left shoulder.

Having said all of that, this is not rigid law ! You dont get locked up for doing the opposite.

[PiobBear]

Yes, a woman's sash is worn over the right shoulder unless they are the wife of a clan chief or a colonel of a Scottish regiment. Country dancers wear it on the left shoulder because it interferes with their dance. Gentlemen wear their plaids on the left.

[Nanook]

A good description is:

http://www.clanhannay.us/sash.html

Men, on the other hand, can (and should) wear their "sash" -- fly, half (Drummer's) , full (Piper's) or untailored (shawl or "blanket") plaid--- upon shoulder opposite their dominant or writing hand with a (strong cultural) preference to left. Historically it would be, as with the shield in jousting, the left shoulder. While the days of forced use of the right by lefties is, for the most part, behind us even today most countries continue a bias in favor of right handedness due to its dominance--- recall, however, that not all languages are written left to right but many right to left and still others top down. The middle English word for left is "sinistre" with all its other meanings (including unlucky).