Why a single rule does not cover this catalogue
Questions about fit here arrive in the same shape: what size should I order? The answer depends on the style, because That’s A Awful Lot Of Cough Syrup writes its fit guidance product by product, not once for the range. On two tee styles the Desto Dubb streetwear cut runs small enough that the brand instructs you to order one or two sizes bigger. Most of the catalogue are listed as true to size. True to size describes a further two as well, though each one suggests you size up for the oversized look. Returns happen when one rule is applied anyway, because those instructions cannot be folded into one.
The missing size chart, and what it means for you
No global size chart is published by the brand. The brand’s own sizing pages, a general sizing chart and a separate t-shirt size chart, render without any chart content as of September 2026. Rather than a temporary outage, that is the state of the site. On a resale listing, a blog or a lookalike store, any measurement table for alocs clothing is somebody else’s reconstruction, not a published figure. The product description is therefore your only authoritative source on fit, and it deserves a full read. Those charts are guesses, and should be treated as such.
The size range you are picking from
What is actually on offer is the place to start. Apparel runs XS to 3XL, with small through extra-large on nearly every style. A 3XL buyer shops a subset of the catalogue, because 3XL appears on 48 products and the top is narrower than it looks. Away from that ladder sit denim and workwear, sized by waist from 28 through 44. For kids, sizes run 2/3, 4/5, 6 and 8. Organised by situation, the sections below quote every instruction from the brand’s own copy.
When the style is true to size
Given as fitting true to size: the Classic Cough Syrup T-Shirt, Hoodie and Sweatpants, the Dickies Button Down, the Dodger T-shirt, the Double Cup Cargo Shorts, the Women’s Booty Shorts, and the King Of The Kill, Drankenstein and Juicebusters tees. The default across most of the catalogue, and the easiest case. Because the classic tees are described as relaxed-fit, true to size already means a roomier body than a fitted tee. Your usual size is the one to order on every one of these. Your usual medium in a classic awful lot of cough syrup shirt buys you a relaxed medium, not a slim one. More room puts you in the next situation.
Where the page says to size up for an oversized fit
Two styles carry a note that does two things at once, and it is easy to misread. For the Warning T-Shirt the copy reads true to size, with the added line that for an oversized fit you should consider sizing up. The Double Cup Cargo Shorts say it slightly differently: they run true to size, and for an oversized fit you size up one. What the note gives you is a condition, not a correction. The garment is not mis-sized; the brand is explaining how to reach a looser silhouette. Order your normal size for the intended fit; if you want it big, go one up and stop, because the note says one.
When the style runs small
Skipping the product copy costs the most here. The Wok Is Dead T-Shirt and the Promethazine Tour T-Shirt carry an explicit warning: the style runs small, so order one or two sizes bigger than your regular size for a relaxed fit. Unlike the heavyweight classic tee, both are wide-fit, cropped tees in lightweight cotton jersey, rinsed for a vintage feel, with water-based prints front and back. A cropped body is short by design, so the extra size buys length as much as width. A large or extra-large is what that means here if your usual size is a medium. Why one rule cannot cover thats an awful lot of cough syrup as a catalogue is illustrated most clearly here.
When the brand publishes flat measurements
Actual flat measurements appear on a few products, and they beat every rule of thumb. The Wok Is Dead and Promethazine Tour tees come with published width by length from the back: small 20 inches by 17.5, medium 21.5 by 19, large 23 by 20.5. The waist and inseam figures are published for the Double Cup Cargo Shorts: small 29.5 inches and 7.75, medium 31.5 and 8, large 33.5 and 8.5, extra-large 35.5 and 9, 2XL 37.5 and 9.5. The method is simple: lay flat a garment you own and like, measure armpit to armpit and collar seam to hem, then compare. More than any letter can tell you comes out of that comparison, and it assumes nothing. Use the measurements wherever they are published, and disregard everything else.
When you are shopping for bottoms
Bottoms follow a second logic, and it catches people out. On the XS to 3XL ladder you find sweatpants and sweat shorts, with the Classic Cough Syrup Sweatpants published as fitting true to size. Denim and workwear do not work that way: they go by waist from 28 through 44, so there is no letter to convert. The cargo shorts, the carpenter pants and the Dickies-based trousers all fall under that. Rather than guessing, measure trousers you already wear when you are shopping alocs shorts and the listing offers a waist number. There is no published conversion between them, and the two systems do not map onto each other.
Where the product page tells you nothing
Plenty of listings carry no fit note at all, and this is where judgement comes in. Your safest assumption is true to size, because that is the published default wherever the brand does say something. Take the garment type as your guide beyond that: a 16 oz hoodie and a 6.5 oz tee behave very differently, and heavier cloth is less forgiving. The sensible default on an awful lot of cough syrup hoodie with no note is your usual size, and one up if you want it oversized. A lightweight cropped tee running small says nothing about a fleece sweatpant, so do not import a rule from one style onto another. Pick a style that does publish a note if the piece matters and the page is silent.
What to order, style by style, in one place
The table collects every published fit instruction in one place. The middle column carries what the brand says on the product page, and the right column turns it into a decision. Where a style is absent, no note has been published and the true-to-size default applies. Resale listings and reviews are not the source of any of it, and nothing has been averaged into a general rule. The whole table was checked in September 2026. Because products come and go every few weeks, read it alongside the product page, not instead of it.
| Style | What the brand says about fit | What to order |
|---|---|---|
| Classic Cough Syrup T-Shirt | Fits true to size; relaxed fit | Your usual size |
| Classic Cough Syrup Hoodie | Runs true to size | Your usual size |
| Classic Cough Syrup Sweatpants | Fits true to size | Your usual size |
| King Of The Kill, Drankenstein, Juicebusters tees | Style fits true to size | Your usual size |
| Dickies Button Down, Dodger T-shirt, Women’s Booty Shorts | True to size | Your usual size |
| Warning T-Shirt | Runs true to size; for oversized fit, consider sizing up | Usual size, or one up for oversized |
| Double Cup Cargo Shorts | Runs true to size; for oversized fit, size up one | Usual waist, or one up for oversized |
| Wok Is Dead T-Shirt | Runs small; order 1-2 sizes bigger than your regular size | One or two sizes up |
| Promethazine Tour T-Shirt | Runs small; order 1-2 sizes bigger than your regular size | One or two sizes up |
| Any style with no published note | Nothing published | Usual size; one up for oversized |
A final word on charts you find elsewhere
This bears saying twice, because it is the point most likely to save you a parcel: there is no published size chart for this brand. Every chart circulating under the brand’s name came from somebody else, usually by measuring one garment or copying a template, and neither accounts for a catalogue where one tee runs small and another runs relaxed. The pages that would hold one load without any chart, and the frequently asked questions do not fill the gap. A wrong call is recoverable but not free, because returns exist with a refund window of a month from purchase and return shipping paid by the customer. Only three things are reliable: the per-product fit note, the published flat measurements where they exist, and a tape measure against something you own. Reading the copy properly costs less than posting a box back.
