Women's 8-10% Leotard Block (Dance)

This is the Women's 10% negative ease leotard block. It's the ultimate tool for creating your own adult women's dance patterns!
 
It has been designed specifically for dance and gymnastics with a more full coverage bottom and is better contoured for an adult body shape. It's also designed to better handle torso rotation on the vertical without as much rippling as standard blocks.
 
This block comes in two formats:

1. Undarted: suitable for up to a B Cup
2. Darted for A, B, C, D, E, F and G cups (but slightly compressing)

I don't use girth as a measurement although many dance makers do. Instead I use nape to waist and waist to fullest hips so we can properly locate the waist (important if you need to know exactly where to increase girth). When you need to further change the overall girth you still do so at the waist if it's a small amount (less than 4cm),  by checking the difference between the block's nape to waist and waist to hips against those measurements on the body. Any more than 4cm and you would be advised to distribute that extra length across several places on the vertical.

There is no vertical negative ease included so you can directly measure the blocks on the vertical. 

This block includes a symmetrical front to back sleeve block (though offset towards the front at the shoulder seam) and a whole host of different guide lines to help you design (there's an included PDF tell you how to use find and use the optional guidelines).