A single rule cannot cover this catalogue

The same shape covers almost every fit question here: what size should I order? Because That’s A Awful Lot Of Cough Syrup sets out its fit guidance product by product, not once for the range, the answer depends on the style. The note on the page across most styles is true to size. A pair of tee styles run small enough that the brand instructs you to move one or two sizes bigger. A further two fit true to size but ask you to size up for the oversized look. Instructions like those cannot be folded into one rule, and applying one anyway is how returns happen.

The absent size chart, and what that means for you

The brand has published no global size chart. Its own sizing pages, a zip up hoodie 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. Which means the product description is your only authoritative source on fit, and it deserves a full read. Any measurement table for alocs clothing on a resale listing, a blog or a lookalike store is somebody else’s reconstruction, not a published figure. Take those charts for guesses, because that is what they are.

The range of sizes you are choosing from

What is actually on offer comes first. With small through extra-large on nearly every style, apparel runs XS to 3XL. The top is narrower than it looks: 3XL appears on 48 products, so a 3XL buyer shops a subset of the catalogue. Both denim and workwear sit off that ladder and are sized by waist from 28 through 44. Kids sizes come in 2/3, 4/5, 6 and 8. Every instruction quoted below comes from the brand’s own copy, and the sections are arranged by situation.

When the style is true to size

Over most of the catalogue this is the default, and the easiest case. Published as 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. Because the classic tees are described as relaxed-fit, true to size already means a roomier body than a fitted tee. Order the size you normally wear for all of these. Your usual medium in a classic awful lot of cough syrup shirt gets you a relaxed medium, not a slim one. The next situation covers you if you want more room.

Where the page says to size up for an oversized fit

A note on two styles does two things at once, and it is easy to misread. Along with the line that for an oversized fit you should consider sizing up, the Warning T-Shirt runs true to size. Slightly differently worded, the Double Cup Cargo Shorts run true to size, and for an oversized fit you size up one. The instruction is conditional rather than a correction. The garment is not mis-sized; the brand is explaining how to reach a looser silhouette. If you want the intended fit, order your normal size; if you want it big, go one up and stop, because the note says one.

When the style runs small

Here skipping the product copy costs the most. An explicit warning sits on the Wok Is Dead T-Shirt and the Promethazine Tour T-Shirt: the style runs small, so order one or two sizes bigger than your regular size for a relaxed fit. Both are wide-fit, cropped tees 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. When your usual size is a medium, that points you at a large or extra-large here. Why one rule cannot cover thats an awful lot of cough syrup as a catalogue is shown most clearly here.

When the brand publishes flat measurements

Real flat measurements appear on a few products, and they beat every rule of thumb. The Wok Is Dead and Promethazine Tour tees carry 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. The published measurements win wherever they exist, so use them and disregard everything else. That comparison beats what any letter can tell you, and it assumes nothing.

When you are buying bottoms

People get caught out by the second logic that bottoms follow. Sweatpants and sweat shorts use the XS to 3XL ladder, and the Classic Cough Syrup Sweatpants are published as fitting true to size. Denim and workwear go by waist from 28 through 44, and that leaves no letter to convert. The cargo shorts, the carpenter pants and the Dickies-based trousers all fall under that. Nothing published converts between them, and the two systems do not map onto each other. When you are shopping alocs shorts and the listing gives a waist number, measure trousers you already wear rather than guessing.

Where the product page tells you nothing

Many listings carry no fit note at all, and this is where judgement comes in. Wherever the brand does publish a note, the default is true to size, which makes it the safest assumption. A 16 oz hoodie and a 6.5 oz tee behave very differently, so let the garment type guide you beyond that, and remember that heavier cloth is less forgiving. For an awful lot of cough syrup hoodie with no note, your usual size is the reasonable default, 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. Choose one 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 gathers every published fit instruction in one place. The middle column holds what the brand says on the product page, and the right column turns it into a decision. Nothing here is inferred from resale listings or reviews, or averaged into a general rule. Where a style is absent, no note has been published and the true-to-size default applies. The whole table was checked in September 2026. Read it alongside the product page, not instead of it, since products come and go every few weeks.

One last word on charts you find elsewhere

It bears repeating, 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 no gap is filled by the frequently asked questions. Returns do exist, with a refund window of a month from purchase and return shipping paid by the customer, so a wrong call is recoverable but not free. Trust 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.