Choosing Cough Syrup Apparel Wash and Care Guide

The Classic Cough Syrup T-Shirt is the piece every other piece answers to

The first thing I offer when a friend asks where to begin with That’s A Awful Lot Of Cough Syrup is the Classic Cough Syrup T-Shirt. 6.5 oz 100% organic cotton makes up the body, weightier than the flimsy jersey the bulk of graphic tees get printed on, and you notice that the second you pick one up. The cut is relaxed rather than slim and the signature jumbo screen prints sit front and back, so the shirt hangs off the shoulder instead of clinging to the chest and reads from both sides when you walk past someone. The first thing veteran buyers of alocs clothing hunt down on any piece is the yellow woven label stitched cult streetwear label from LA at the hem, that band of yellow. Not every tee here is cut the same way, which is why it matters more than it sounds that the brand’s own copy says this style fits true to size. At the brand’s own store it lands at about $150 as of September 2026, and because streetwear prices move constantly, treat that as a snapshot.

The graphic tees, called by their actual names

The majority of the cough syrup shirts on offer sit at that same core price as graphic tees, and half the reason people collect them is the names. Run down the catalogue and you get the A.L.O.C.S. T-Shirt, the Warning T-Shirt, King Of The Kill, Drankenstein and Juicebusters, as well as Big Pharma, Cough Syrup Scream, Paralysis, Rib Cage, ALOCS Smoke and the Cough Syrup Scary Movie T-Shirt. Carry on scrolling and you reach Po Up, Rosary, Man Down, Death Row, Land Of the Sippers, The Last Pint, Love At First Sip, the Wok Is Dead T-Shirt, the Promethazine Tour T-Shirt and the Dodger T-shirt. King Of The Kill, Drankenstein and Juicebusters share one spec sheet: 100% cotton, jumbo screenprint hits front and back, the yellow woven label, and a fit the brand calls true to size. Also true to size is the Warning T-Shirt, a 100% organic cotton short sleeve, though the brand adds that you should consider sizing up for an oversized look. Handmade in Los Angeles is how the Paralysis T-Shirt is described, with a stencil-style treatment and a rough print on a relaxed body. Promethazine Tour and The Last Pint are names that play on the phrase the brand is built from, which refers to promethazine-codeine cough syrup, known as lean; the brand runs its own banner reading “! PLEASE DO NOT SIP DRANK AND SHOOT FIREARMS !” and then goes back to selling clothes.

The lightweight, cropped cuts sit apart in a lane of their own

A paragraph of their own goes to two tees that behave differently enough to need it, the Wok Is Dead T-Shirt and the Promethazine Tour T-Shirt. Both get published as a wide-fit, cropped tee in lightweight cotton jersey, the opposite of the heavy classic body in almost every respect. They are rinsed for a comfortable vintage feel, and the artwork is a water based screen print front and back rather than a thick plastic-feeling hit. Rare enough here to be worth using, the published flat measurements on these two run small at 20 inches by 17.5 inches, medium 21.5 by 19, large 23 by 20.5, taken as width by length. Lay those numbers against a tee you already own, since 20 inches wide by 17.5 long is short by ordinary standards. For a relaxed fit the brand asks you to order one to two sizes bigger than your regular size, because it states outright that this style runs small. On price they sit with everything else, about $150 at the brand’s own store as of September 2026.

Women’s cuts and the less heavyweight end of the rail

Not every piece with the logo on it costs what the flagship tee costs, and that surprises people who know the brand only from resale chatter. On the women’s side the lighter pieces run roughly $48 to $100 and they cover crop tops, tank tops and bodysuits rather than the full heavyweight body. Tanks and crop tops are published as 100% combed cotton, a genuinely different fabric from the 6.5 oz organic cotton on the classic. A handful of tanks come with the Cough Syrup measuring line side print, a nod to a dosage line and one of the quieter graphics in the lineup. A Kids Classic Cough Syrup T-Shirt also sits there at about $60, the cheapest route into the classic artwork. If you have been searching an awful lot of cough syrup shirt and bouncing off the $150 figure should open this part of the catalogue first, and expect these prices to shift with drops and sales.

A glance across the whole tee range

The table below pulls together what the brand actually publishes for each tee, not what forums assume. These figures are what the brand’s own store showed as of September 2026, and each drop changes them. Only what the brand states itself goes in the material column, which is why some rows are thinner. Because no single global rule exists here, the fit notes are per-product guidance rather than one blanket rule. Rather than filling the gap with a guess, I have said so where the brand publishes nothing about the fabric. The one useful fit sentence lives on the product page, so use this as a shortlist and read that page next.

How these tees actually fit on a body

There is no one rule here, and pretending otherwise is how people end up reselling a tee they wore once. Published as true to size are the classic, the Warning tee and the King Of The Kill, Drankenstein and Juicebusters group, and most of the range besides. True to size on the classic already means room through the chest and a print that sits flat rather than stretched, since that body is described as relaxed. On top of that, the Warning tee adds the option of going up one if you want a lower hem and a wider sleeve, which is the look most people are after. The two lightweight cropped styles come next, and they run small and ask for one to two sizes up, so a medium in the classic might be a large or extra large in Wok Is Dead. Right across the apparel range, sizes go from extra small up to 3XL depending on style, though the deeper sizes are not on every product. The brand publishes no global size chart and no washing instructions, which is worth saying plainly, so per-product notes and those flat measurements are all you get.

Picking the one you will really wear

For a first piece, buy the classic in your normal size and learn how the 6.5 oz body wears before spending on anything cut unusually. Already own one and want something different rather than something similar? The cropped lightweight tees give you another silhouette for the same money, provided you respect the sizing note. If graphics matter to you more than cut, shop by name, because Drankenstein, Rib Cage and Cough Syrup Scary Movie pull from the horror side while Big Pharma and Promethazine Tour lean on medical wordplay. The yellow woven label, the product name against the brand’s own catalogue and the price against real levels are all worth checking whatever you pick, because a $45 tee carrying this artwork is not coming from the label. One of a dozen ways people type the name into a search bar is Thats awful lot of cough syrup, and plenty of those searches land on stores with no connection to the brand. Between its own online store, its Los Angeles locations at 7669 Melrose Ave and 312 W 5th St and 5410 Almeda Rd in Houston, the brand sells direct, and roughly two in five size variants sit sold out at any moment. Because prices, colorways and availability shift drop by drop, check the live listing on the day you buy rather than trusting any guide, including this one.