Why a single rule fails to cover this catalogue

Sizing questions here turn up in the same shape: what size should I order? The style decides, since That’s A Awful Lot Of Cough Syrup records its fit guidance product by product, not once for the range. Most pieces are described as true to size. The brand asks you to go one or two sizes bigger on two of the tees, which run small. Another two styles fit true to size while suggesting you size up for the oversized look. Those instructions cannot be alocs graphic shorts folded into one rule, and applying one anyway is how returns happen.

The missing size chart, and what that means for you

No global size chart exists, and the brand publishes none. Its 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. That means the product description is your only authoritative source on fit, and it is worth reading in full. A reconstruction by somebody else is what every measurement table for alocs clothing on a resale listing, a blog or a lookalike store amounts to, not a published figure. Guesswork is what those charts are, so read them accordingly.

The range of sizes you are choosing from

Begin with what is actually on offer. With small through extra-large on nearly every style, apparel runs XS to 3XL. A 3XL buyer is shopping a subset of the catalogue, because 3XL appears on 48 products and the top is narrower than it looks. Denim and workwear stay off that ladder and are sized by waist from 28 through 44. 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

Over most of the catalogue this is the default, and the easiest case. 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 classic tees are described as relaxed-fit, so true to size already means a roomier body than a fitted tee. Order the size you normally wear across all of these. A relaxed medium, not a slim one, is what your normal medium buys you in a classic awful lot of cough syrup shirt. More room is the next situation.

When the page says to size up for an oversized fit

Misreading it is easy, because two styles carry a note that does two things at once. The Warning T-Shirt runs 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. The instruction is conditional, not a correction. The garment is not mis-sized; the brand is explaining how to reach a looser silhouette. For the intended fit, order your normal size; if you want it big, go one up and stop, because the note says one.

Where the style runs small

Here ignoring the product copy costs the most. On the Wok Is Dead T-Shirt and the Promethazine Tour T-Shirt the warning is explicit: the style runs small, so order one or two sizes bigger than your regular size for a relaxed fit. Cropped and wide-fit, both are made in lightweight cotton jersey, rinsed for a vintage feel, with water-based prints front and back, unlike the heavyweight classic tee. Because a cropped body is short by design, the extra size buys length as much as width. That points a usual medium at a large or extra-large here. Nothing illustrates it more clearly of why one rule cannot cover thats an awful lot of cough syrup as a catalogue.

Where flat measurements are published

A few products carry actual flat measurements, and these beat every rule of thumb. 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. On the Wok Is Dead and Promethazine Tour tees the brand publishes width by length from the back: small 20 inches by 17.5, medium 21.5 by 19, large 23 by 20.5. 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. The published measurements win wherever they exist, so use them and disregard everything else.

When the purchase is bottoms

People get caught out by the second logic that bottoms follow. The Classic Cough Syrup Sweatpants are published as fitting true to size, and sweatpants and sweat shorts sit on the XS to 3XL ladder. Denim and workwear are not sold 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 are all covered by that. No published conversion exists between them, and the two systems do not map onto each other. Instead of guessing, measure trousers you already wear when you are shopping alocs shorts and the listing offers a waist number.

When the page tells you nothing at all

Judgement is needed where a listing carries no fit note at all, which is plenty of them. Your safest assumption is true to size, because that is the published default wherever the brand does say something. After that, let the garment type guide you: a 16 oz hoodie and a 6.5 oz tee behave very differently, and heavier cloth is less forgiving. Never import a rule from one style onto another, because a lightweight cropped tee running small says nothing about a fleece sweatpant. Your usual size is the reasonable default for an awful lot of cough syrup hoodie with no note, and one up if you want it oversized. When the piece matters and the page is silent, choose one that does publish a note.

What to order, style by style, in one place

The table gathers every published fit instruction in one place. Read the middle column as what the brand says on the product page, and the right column as that turned into a decision. Nothing has been published for a style that is absent, so 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. Every line of it was checked in September 2026. Treat it as a companion to the product page rather than a replacement, since products come and go every few weeks.

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

One last word on charts you find elsewhere

The single point most likely to save you a parcel bears repeating: there is no published size chart for this brand. The pages that would hold one load without any chart, and no gap is filled by the frequently asked questions. 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. 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. Rely on the per-product fit note, the published flat measurements where they exist, and a tape measure against something you own. It is cheaper to read the copy properly than to post a box back.