Quote Originally Posted by Semiomniscient View Post
there is always the option of a tartan sash worn in a variety of ways. Scotty Thompson's "So Your Going to Wear the Kilt" does address this and I believe describes how to form a rosette from a tartan sash. (There are some who say that the sash is to be worn on the left shoulder save for chief's/chieftain's wives or ladies of nobility in their own right--as well as Scottish Country Dancers for that matter--but I've not seen hard evidence for this.).
Actually, James, it is supposed to be the other way around. Clanswomen wear the sash from the right shoulder; wives of chiefs, chieftainesses, and colonels' wives wear a sash from the left shoulder. The Court of the Lord Lyon has a pamphlet describing this :
http://www.scotarmigers.net/pdfs/info-leaflet-7.pdf

Cheers,
Sandford