ALOCS Tee Sizing Guide Fit Comfort and Care

The part that is missing is where to start

Every honest care guide for this label opens on an absence. At no point does That’s A Awful Lot Of Cough Syrup publish any washing or care instructions: not on the product pages, not in a care section, not in a policy page. No global reference document exists to fall back on, because shop alocs t shirts its two size-chart pages render without any chart or care content at all. Payments, shipping, refunds are the FAQ’s subject matter, and it stops there. Because the brand has given none, nothing below can be presented as the brand’s instruction. The fabric weights and constructions the brand does publish are what the general garment-care practice below is written for, and it is kept clearly separated from the handful of things the brand actually states.

What the brand does publish, fabric by fabric

The silence on care is the more noticeable for specifications that go into this much detail about weight and composition. The classic tees are listed as 6.5 oz, 100 percent organic cotton in a relaxed fit, about $150 at the brand’s own store as of September 2026. 16 oz organic cotton, hand-dyed and printed in Los Angeles, is the Classic Cough Syrup Hoodie, at about $200 on the same date, and prices do change. The classic sweatpants are a 14 oz fleece published as 80 percent cotton and 20 percent recycled polyester. Garment-dyed by what the brand calls a double dye process to mimic sun-fading, the Double Cup Cargo Shorts are published as 14 oz denim. The Dickies pieces come in a 65/35 cotton-polyester blend, and garments carry the signature yellow woven label.

Organic cotton jersey fabric

Most cough syrup clothing you are likely to own sits on this fabric, and it happens to be the best documented. The composition, 100 percent organic cotton, the weight, 6.5 oz, a relaxed cut and jumbo screen prints front and back: all of that the brand states. A few lighter styles are described as cotton jersey that has been rinsed for a vintage feel, which tells you the fabric has already been through water before it reached you. Nothing is published by the brand on wash temperature, cycle, drying or ironing for any of it. General practice with a mid-weight cotton jersey carrying a large print is a cool wash, inside out, gentle drying, and no direct heat at the print. None of that comes from the label; it is standard handling for that fabric and that construction, not something the label has told anyone to do.

Heavyweight cotton, and fleece

The heavy end of the range holds two pieces. Unusually heavy for a hood, the awful lot of cough syrup hoodie in the classic cut is published as 16 oz organic cotton, hand-dyed and printed in Los Angeles. With the logo screen printed across the front and up the back legs, the sweatpants are a 14 oz fleece at 80 percent cotton and 20 percent recycled polyester. No published wash instruction, no shrinkage note and no drying recommendation exists for either of them. A cool wash, a gentle cycle to protect the loft, and drying flat or on low heat is general practice for heavy cotton fleece, because dense fabrics take their shape from how they dry. Cold water and separate washing while colour settles would ordinarily be warranted by a hand-dyed piece, though the brand specifies none of it.

Raw and dyed denim, then

The most interesting case, and the least documented, is the denim. The weight, 14 oz, the finish, garment-dyed by a double dye process meant to mimic sun-fading, and a custom leather patch: that is all the brand publishes about the Double Cup Cargo Shorts. What it does not publish is whether that denim is raw or pre-washed, whether it will shrink, or whether the dye will transfer to lighter fabrics or to upholstery. With any garment-dyed indigo or overdyed piece that last question matters, yet no answer exists on the site. With heavy dyed denim, general practice is to wash rarely, inside out, in cold water with like colours, and to air-dry rather than machine-dry. That is, again, the usual way heavy dyed denim is handled, not an instruction from the brand.

Cotton-poly workwear

The Dickies line behaves differently from everything else here, and the polyester content is why. 65 percent cotton and 35 percent polyester is the published blend across the work shirt and the lined jacket, the classic workwear ratio and the most forgiving fabric here. More stable than pure cotton, less prone to shrinking and quicker to dry, such blends have been used by workwear for decades. Down to the pencil pocket on the jacket sleeve, the blend and the construction get published, but no care guidance whatsoever. A warm or cool machine wash and a low drying heat is general practice for a 65/35 shirt, since high heat is harder on polyester than on cotton. Lined outerwear is often handled professionally rather than at home, which makes a fully lined jacket a different proposition.

On the screen-printed graphics

The prints warrant separate treatment, because they are the reason most people bought the garment. In its own copy the brand describes jumbo screen prints at front and back, artwork screen-printed in Los Angeles, and water-based screen printing on some of the lighter tees. The brand does not label which pieces use which, although water-based inks sit into the fabric rather than on top of it and feel softer, while thicker prints sit on the surface. On whether a print should be washed inside out, ironed over or tumble dried, the brand publishes nothing at all. With a large screen print, general practice is to turn the garment inside out, keep the water cool, skip the dryer where possible, and never press a hot iron onto the print. The usual outcome of heat is cracked or faded artwork, heat being the one variable you control entirely.

Storage, and the things nobody writes down

The absence of published guidance matters least at the storage end, because the physics are the same for everyone. Folding is the usual recommendation, because heavy knits behave badly on hangers and a 16 oz hoodie or a 14 oz fleece can stretch its own shoulders over months. Lighter tees are fine on a hanger, though a crowded rail creases prints along fold lines that can become permanent. Light will fade a dyed finish unevenly, so denim is happiest folded or hung by the waistband, away from direct sunlight. The real enemy across all of it is damp, which nothing about alocs clothing changes. This is not brand guidance at all; it is ordinary practice for those weights, and worth saying plainly because the brand says nothing.

The whole picture, gathered into one table

What the table does is separate the two categories that matter here. A useful set of facts about weight and composition, which is what the brand actually publishes, fills one column. General practice for that fabric goes in another column, drawn from how such fabrics are normally handled and not from the label. Naming the gap is the last column’s job, because knowing what has not been answered is as useful as knowing what has. The same emptiness described here is what searchers who type thats a awful lot of cough syrup looking for a wash symbol will find. Any care chart attributed to this brand elsewhere is somebody’s reconstruction, not a published document.

The gap, and living with it

None of this is an argument against the clothes. A 16 oz hoodie and 14 oz denim are substantial garments, and the published specifications are better than many labels bother with. Specification and care are two different documents, and here only one of them exists, which is the gap. Where a definitive answer matters, ask at the brand’s own store or its locations in Los Angeles and Houston, and that answer beats anything inferred from a fabric weight. Until then the sensible position on any awful lot of cough syrup piece is caution: cool water, low heat, inside out, and patience with a garment hand-dyed and screen-printed rather than mass-finished. What has just spoken is general practice, and it should be read in that light and no other.