Why a single rule fails to cover this catalogue

Just about every fit question here is asked 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, not once for the range. The majority of pieces are listed as true to size. On two of the tees the cut runs small enough that the brand tells you to order one or two sizes bigger. True to size covers two more as well, though each one asks you to size up for the oversized look. Returns happen exactly when awfullottacoughsyrup.com/product-category/t-shirts one rule is applied anyway, because those instructions cannot be folded into one.

The missing size chart, and what it means for you

The brand has published no global size chart. 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. A temporary outage is not what this is; it is the state of the site. Give the product description a full read, because it is your only authoritative source on fit. 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. Guesses is what those charts are, so treat them accordingly.

The size range on offer

What is actually on offer comes first. 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 are not on that ladder, but 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

Across most of the catalogue this is the default, and the easiest case. 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. Order the size you normally wear on all of these. True to size already means a roomier body than a fitted tee, since the classic tees are described as relaxed-fit. A relaxed medium, not a slim one, is what your usual medium buys you in a classic awful lot of cough syrup shirt. If more room is what you are after, the next situation applies.

When the page tells you to size up for an oversized fit

It is easy to misread, because two styles carry a note that does two things at once. With the added 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 garment is not mis-sized at all; the brand is explaining how to reach a looser silhouette. The instruction is conditional rather than 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.

When the style runs small

The cost of skipping the product copy peaks here. An explicit warning is published 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. 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. The extra size buys length as much as width, since a cropped body is short by design. 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.

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. 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 put them to work, 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 the purchase is bottoms

Bottoms follow a second logic, and it catches people out. Sweatpants and sweat shorts use the XS to 3XL ladder, and the Classic Cough Syrup Sweatpants are published as fitting true to size. Because denim and workwear go by waist from 28 through 44, there is no letter to convert. The cargo shorts, the carpenter pants and the Dickies-based trousers all sit there. Measure trousers you already wear rather than guessing if 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.

When the 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. Do not import a rule from one style onto another, because a lightweight cropped tee running small says nothing about a fleece sweatpant. The reasonable default on an awful lot of cough syrup hoodie with no note is your usual size, and one up if you want it oversized. 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

Every published fit instruction sits in the table below. Read the middle column as what the brand says on the product page, and the right column as that turned into a decision. Nothing here has been inferred from resale listings or reviews, or averaged into a general rule. Nothing has been published for a style that is absent, so the true-to-size default applies. 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.

A closing word on charts found 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. The pages that ought to hold one load without any chart, and no gap is filled by the frequently asked questions. Whoever made the charts circulating under the brand’s name did it by measuring one garment or copying a template, and neither accounts for a catalogue where one tee runs small and another runs relaxed. 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. The only reliable sources are the per-product fit note, the published flat measurements where they exist, and a tape measure against something you own. Reading the copy properly is cheaper than posting a box back.