What is proper for women?

[Chas]

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

That seems to be quite definitive. Except for the last sentence which makes no sense and is strictly speaking not a sentence at all.

Bearings in Scotland, and the principles on which they are allotted and should continue to be allotted.

Regards

Chas