Why no one rule covers this catalogue

Questions about fit here turn up in the same shape: what size should I order? The style is what decides, since That’s A Awful Lot Of Cough Syrup writes its fit guidance product by product, not once for the range. The majority of pieces are published as alocs shorts true to size. The label tells you to move one or two sizes bigger on two tee styles, which run small. True to size covers a further two as well, though each one suggests you size up for the oversized look. Guidance of that kind cannot be folded into one rule, and applying one anyway is how returns happen.

The missing size chart, and what it means for you

The brand has never published a global size chart. A general sizing chart and a separate t-shirt size chart, its own sizing pages, render without any chart content as of September 2026. A temporary outage is not what this is; it is the state of the site. Any measurement table for alocs clothing that you find on a resale listing, a blog or a lookalike store 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, so read them that way.

The size range on offer

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

When the style runs true to size

Across 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. Order the size you normally wear for all of these. Because the classic tees are described as relaxed-fit, true to size already means a roomier body than a fitted tee. Your normal medium in a classic awful lot of cough syrup shirt leaves you with a relaxed medium, not a slim one. Should you want more room, the next situation applies.

When the page says to size up for an oversized fit

Easy to misread: two styles carry a note that does two things at once. Along with the line that for an oversized fit you should consider sizing up, the Warning T-Shirt runs true to size. The Double Cup Cargo Shorts word it slightly differently: they run true to size, and for an oversized fit you size up one. The garment is not mis-sized at all; the brand is explaining how to reach a looser silhouette. Take the instruction as conditional, not as a correction. 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.

Where the style runs small

In this case ignoring the product copy costs the most. 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. Wide-fit and cropped, 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. A large or extra-large is what that means here if you normally wear a medium. As a demonstration of why one rule cannot cover thats an awful lot of cough syrup as a catalogue, this is the clearest.

When the brand publishes flat measurements

Any rule of thumb is beaten by the actual flat measurements that a few products carry. For 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 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. Lay flat a garment you own and like, measure armpit to armpit and collar seam to hem, then compare. Use the measurements wherever they are published, and disregard everything else. Without assuming anything, that comparison tells you more than any letter can.

When bottoms are what you are buying

There is a second logic for bottoms, and it catches people out. 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 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 are all covered by that. Nothing published converts between them, and the two systems do not map onto each other. Rather than guessing, measure trousers you already wear when you are shopping alocs shorts and the listing offers a waist number.

When the product page tells you nothing at all

Where no fit note is published, and that is plenty of listings, judgement comes in. Since true to size is the published default wherever the brand does say something, it is the safest assumption. 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. 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 when the piece matters and the page stays silent.

What to order, style by style, in one place

The table gathers 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. A style that is absent has no published note, which leaves the true-to-size default. Resale listings and reviews are not the source of any of it, and nothing has been averaged into a general rule. Because products come and go every few weeks, read it alongside the product page, not instead of it. The whole table was checked in September 2026.

A final word on charts you find elsewhere

There is no published size chart for this brand, and it is worth repeating because it is the point most likely to save you a parcel. The frequently asked questions do not fill the gap either, and the pages that would hold one load without any chart. Somebody else built every chart circulating under the brand’s name, usually by measuring one garment or copying a template, and neither accounts for a catalogue where one tee runs small and another runs relaxed. 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. Reading the copy properly costs less than posting a box back.