Pop Cultchah: Item of the Week: White Cut-Out Vest by Barlow

I found this item of the week hiding deep in the fashion wilderness of shopbop.com. It took some scrounging, once on the website I actually had to press in the middle of my computer screen with my mouse-tool to enter the featured items page. But once done, the website yielded to me some wonderful leather goods which I quiet enjoyed. None did I enjoy more, however, than this marvelous Barlow vest:

Any hink-de-dink, once I saw this spectacular beast, I started wondering how one might best wear this. Needless to say it is now the orbital outfit of the week. I do believe that there is only one truly right way to wear an item of clothing, one that compliments it and only it. One in which all the other items in the outfit are, in a sense, orbiting around it. That's what I've tried to do for this poor lonely Barlow vest, I've tried to find it some truly complementary companions. Here are the friends I've found:

(Note that the dress is totally backless, allowing for the vest's sexy pattern to shine!)