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if your question was aesthetics, based on the folks I have seen, and how I have dove - no shirt with the great white sausage hanging out (my daughter named my belly that, nothing dirty mind you), do whatever you think is comfortable.
But if I wear a vest, I wear it under a rashguard. My vest is tighter and the rashguard is looser, I like the tighter clothes closer to my body for comfort.