I knew we were dealing with a unique individual.
Most men grow pale at the thought of shopping for lingerie for their wives or girlfriends.
Most men enter a lingerie store with fear in their eyes and a thin sheen of perspiration on their foreheads as they traverse this forbidding land of bras and panties, nighties and camisoles, bustiers and garter belts. But here was Ken Gillman at Bare Necessities at Greenspring Station on Falls Road, looking about as rattled as a man sitting on a beach as he shopped for a Valentine's Day gift for his wife, Rachel. I don't know why. I'm just not. Gillman, it turned out, is 45, lives in Lutherville with his wife and two children and owns a packaging and design company.