old tartans were "simple and earthy"

[Tobus]

No, Anne, not even a century ago. At least to the mid-fifties left-handed at my school were forced to write with their right hand.

Otherwise, you are spot on.

Greg.

I have a twin brother who is left-handed (we are "mirror twins"). Even in the 1970s and 1980s when we were growing up, they were trying to get him to overcome his genetic deficiency (as they saw it), making him write with his right hand.