Read our Privacy noticeA landmark ruling by judges has officially classified baldness as a "disability" following a significant tax dispute between a specialist wig maker and HMRC. Together they developed and marketed the "Kinsey System", a partially haired wig designed particularly for women with patches of hair loss. The wig hair is colour-matched and placed to cover bald spots, with any remaining hair "pulled through the mesh with a crochet needle" to lie alongside the wig hair. "The wig was placed over the area of hair loss alongside additional wig mesh where necessary...The wig then sits in place like a 'second skin,' with native hair poking through the mesh alongside the wig hair." For present purposes, however, severe hair loss in women of the type relevant to this case is, in our view, disabling.