One rule cannot cover this catalogue
Sizing questions here come in the same shape: what size should I order? It depends on the style, because That’s A Awful Lot Of Cough Syrup writes its fit guidance product by product, Desto Dubb not once for the range. The label instructs you to order one or two sizes bigger on a pair of tee styles, which run small. Most styles carry the note true to size. A further two fit true to size but invite you to 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 size chart that is missing, and what that means for you
The brand publishes no 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. Whatever measurement table for alocs clothing turns up on a resale listing, a blog or a lookalike store is somebody else’s reconstruction, not a published figure. Give the product description a full read, because it is your only authoritative source on fit. Treat those charts as guesses, because that is what they are.
The size range you are picking from
Look at the range first, and what is actually on offer. With small through extra-large on nearly every style, apparel runs XS to 3XL. The upper end is narrower than it appears: 3XL appears on 48 products, so a 3XL buyer shops a subset of the catalogue. For kids, sizes run 2/3, 4/5, 6 and 8. Off that ladder entirely sit denim and workwear, sized by waist from 28 through 44. Organised by situation, the sections below quote every instruction from the brand’s own copy.
When the style runs true to size
Published 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. Across most of the catalogue this is the default, and the easiest case. With all of these, order the size you normally wear. The classic tees carry a relaxed-fit description, so true to size already means a roomier body than a fitted tee. A relaxed medium, not a slim one, is what your usual medium gets you in a classic awful lot of cough syrup shirt. If you want more room, the next situation applies.
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. 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. On the Double Cup Cargo Shorts the wording differs slightly: 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. That instruction is conditional, not a correction. Order your normal size for the intended fit; 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. The Wok Is Dead T-Shirt and the Promethazine Tour T-Shirt carry an explicit warning on the page: 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. The extra size buys length as much as width, since a cropped body is short by design. A large or extra-large is where that lands you 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
Every rule of thumb is beaten by the actual flat measurements that a few products carry. 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. Waist and inseam 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. To make use of them, lay flat a garment you own and like, measure armpit to armpit and collar seam to hem, then compare. Assuming nothing, that comparison tells you more than any letter can. When measurements are published, use them and disregard everything else.
When you are shopping for bottoms
Bottoms run on a second logic, 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. Because denim and workwear go by waist from 28 through 44, there is no letter to convert. That takes in the cargo shorts, the carpenter pants and the Dickies-based trousers. Measure trousers you already wear rather than guessing when you are shopping alocs shorts and the listing offers a waist number. Nothing published converts between them, and the two systems do not map onto each other.
Where the product page tells you nothing
Many listings carry no fit note at all, and this is where judgement comes in. Since true to size is the published default wherever the brand does say something, it is the safest assumption. Beyond 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. A lightweight cropped tee running small says nothing about a fleece sweatpant, so do not import a rule from one style onto another. 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. Where the piece matters and the page stays silent, choose one that does publish a note.
What to order, style by style, in one place
Every published fit instruction sits in the table below. What the brand says on the product page sits in the middle column, and the right column turns it 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. Read it alongside the product page, not instead of it, 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 |
A closing word on charts found elsewhere
The single point most likely to save you a parcel bears repeating: there is no published size chart for this brand. Somebody else made 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. The pages that ought to hold one load without any chart, and no gap is filled by the frequently asked questions. Returns 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. 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.