As the Stranger Things series wraps up on the last day of 2025, the show will stay with me for years to come, especially the authenticity of the ’80s sets and wardrobe.
It took many people and stores to amass all the garments needed to clothe the cast over the years. Tommy Dorr, co-owner of Lost and Found Vintage in Royal Oak, was one of those contributors.
It was after moving to Los Angeles in 2012 that Dorr met Amy Parris at a popup event in Burbank. Parris later became the costume designer for the show.
When she enlisted his help during the second season of Stranger Things, he says it was a time when he had started to pick and choose the people he wanted to help, beyond offering what was in his showroom.
“For her, because I liked the show, my staff in Michigan helped with pulls [of clothing],” Dorr says. “She would send us mood boards, and we would pull stuff and send it, and then they’d pick through it.”
For season four, the Lost and Found Vintage provided the iconic red raincoat that Eleven wore in the rain scene.
“They actually made a doll with her wearing that coat,” he says.
The Vintage Origin Story of Tommy Dorr
Dorr’s vintage journey began with a job at Ramona Trade Center, a flea market on the east side of Detroit in the ‘90s.
“That got me into the estate world, buying out estates and taking back the contents to sell in the flea market.”
That was also around the time that he started selling vintage clothing on eBay.
“I just became fascinated with vintage,” says Dorr, who grew up in Clawson. “On a whim, I opened up a small vintage store on 11 Mile [in Royal Oak], across from the post office.”
That store, which opened in 2003, was the original Lost and Found Vintage.
Today, he’s added showrooms in Los Angeles and New York City under the name Moth Food, which was his original eBay name. He goes between both locations but is spending more time in NYC at his newest showroom.
“I started getting into work wear and utilitarian clothing and…more obscure, roughed-up stuff,” Dorr says. “I had built quite a following on Instagram…because it was rare, interesting. I moved out to LA, and I had like a pretty good base of prominent people following me already. I was able to make my name for myself pretty quickly out there.”
The success of the Los Angeles showroom prompted him to open New York in May 2025. Both showrooms are appointment only, and the New York location is also open to non-industry shoppers.
He also notes how much he likes visiting Paris, which could be home to a future showroom.
Still, Lost and Found Vintage, which he comes back to seasonally to transition the store, has his heart.
“It’s my favorite thing that I’ve done still,” says Dorr, who mostly wears vintage from the ‘50s and ‘60s. “Doing business on both coasts. It’s great and all. We deal with lots of celebrities and TV and film and stylists, but it’s just cool to go back there and see a store that’s been open for that long. Customers of mine who shopped there in 2003 and 2004, their kids now shop there.”
For more information on Lost and Found Vintage, visit lostandfoundvintage.com.
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