Fly Plaid - Which Shoulder??

[robbiethepiper]

This actually got me thinking about something else (that is a bit off-topic).

Was there a stigma against being left handed in the Scottish Highlands in the same way there was in other Western countries? We've all heard stories of children having their left arm tied down to force right-handedness, and I wonder if this was the practice in Scotland as well.

I only ask because I don't think I've ever seen a picture of a highlander with his plaid on the right shoulder or his sgian dubh in his left sock, though it would make sense to have a few such pictures.

Well, my ancestors (Kerr) were famously left- handed and altered their world to suit them. They changed doorways and even had spiral stairs going the other way to give advantage to left-handed swordsmen. As to stigma, it would be a brave or foolish man to let it be known he thought himself superior to a Reiver clan.....