ALOCS Shorts Care Guide Quick Buyer Guide

Begin with what is missing

Any care guide for this label has to open honestly, and opening honestly means opening on an absence. Nowhere 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. Its two size-chart pages carry no chart and no care content at all, which is why there is no global reference document to fall back on anywhere on the site. An FAQ is there, but payments, shipping and refunds are all it covers, and it stops there. The brand has not given one, so none of what follows can be presented as the brand’s instruction. The fabric weights and alocs sweat shorts 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, one fabric at a time

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

Organic cotton jersey, first

This is the cloth behind most cough syrup clothing you are likely to own, and it is 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. Described as cotton jersey that has been rinsed for a vintage feel, some lighter styles have already been through water before they reached you. On wash temperature, cycle, drying or ironing, the brand says nothing for any of it. Washing cool and inside out, drying gently, and keeping direct heat away from the print is the general practice for a mid-weight cotton jersey carrying a large print. Routine handling for that fabric and construction is all that is, not something the label has told anyone to do.

Heavyweight cotton and fleece

Two garments sit at the heavy end. 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. A 14 oz fleece at 80 percent cotton and 20 percent recycled polyester is the sweatpants, with the logo screen printed across the front and up the back legs. No published wash instruction, no shrinkage note and no drying recommendation exists for either of them. General practice for heavy cotton fleece is a cool wash, a gentle cycle to protect the loft, and drying flat or on low heat, 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.

The raw and dyed denim

Least documented of all, and the most interesting, is the denim. About the Double Cup Cargo Shorts the brand publishes the weight, 14 oz, the finish, garment-dyed by a double dye process meant to mimic sun-fading, and a custom leather patch. None of it is published: whether that denim is raw or pre-washed, whether it will shrink, or whether the dye will transfer to lighter fabrics or upholstery. No answer exists on the site to that last question, which matters with any garment-dyed indigo or overdyed piece. Rare washing, inside out, in cold water with like colours, and air-drying rather than machine-drying is general practice with heavy dyed denim. Again, that is how heavy dyed denim is usually handled, not an instruction from the brand.

Workwear in cotton-poly

Polyester content is why the Dickies line behaves differently from everything else here. 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. Workwear has used them for decades because such blends are more stable than pure cotton, less prone to shrinking and quicker to dry. The blend and the construction are published, down to the pencil pocket on the jacket sleeve, yet 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. A different proposition is the fully lined jacket, and lined outerwear is often handled professionally rather than at home.

On the screen-printed graphics

Separate treatment is what the prints deserve, 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. Turning the garment inside out, holding the water cool, skipping the dryer where possible, and never pressing a hot iron onto the print is general practice for a large screen print. Heat is the one variable you control entirely, and cracked or faded artwork is the usual outcome of it.

Storage, and the things nobody writes down

Storage is the place where the absence of published guidance matters least, because the physics are the same for everyone. A 16 oz hoodie or a 14 oz fleece can stretch its own shoulders over months, because heavy knits behave badly on hangers, so folding is the usual recommendation. A crowded rail creases prints along fold lines that can become permanent, even though lighter tees hang fine. Light will fade a dyed finish unevenly, so denim is happiest folded or hung by the waistband, away from direct sunlight. Across all of it the real enemy is damp, and nothing about alocs clothing makes it otherwise. Brand guidance this is not; it is ordinary practice for those weights, and it is 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. One column carries what the brand actually publishes, a useful set of facts about weight and composition. General practice for that fabric goes in another column, drawn from how such fabrics are normally handled and not from the label. Knowing what has not been answered is as useful as knowing what has, which is why the last column names the gap. Type thats a awful lot of cough syrup looking for a wash symbol and the same emptiness described here is what comes back. Treat any care chart attributed to this brand elsewhere as somebody’s reconstruction, not a published document.

Living alongside the gap

This is not an argument against the clothes, not one line of it. The published specifications are better than many labels bother with, and a 16 oz hoodie and 14 oz denim are substantial garments. Two different documents, specification and care, with only one of them existing here: that is the whole of the gap. Where a definitive answer matters, ask at the brand’s own store or its locations in Los Angeles and Houston, because that answer beats anything inferred from a fabric weight. Cool water, low heat, inside out, and patience with a garment hand-dyed and screen-printed rather than mass-finished: until then that caution is the sensible position on any awful lot of cough syrup piece. General practice is what has been speaking throughout, and it should be read that way.