Fabric weight is a number, not an adjective

Heavyweight, premium, substantial is the vocabulary streetwear copy uses for cloth. On its core pieces, That’s A Awful Lot Of Cough Syrup does something more useful and prints an ounce figure. In US apparel that figure is how much a fixed area of fabric weighs, so higher means denser cloth. The shape holds longer in denser cloth, collar stretch is held off and a thick screen print lands without ink reading through. That it costs more and wears warmer is the other half of it, and no product page mentions that. Yarn quality, dye stability and how the seams are bound are precisely what a weight cannot tell premium hoodie you.

What That’s A Awful Lot Of Cough Syrup really puts in print

Across a catalogue of 154 products, the level of material detail is uneven. The full specification, an ounce weight plus a fiber breakdown, sits on a few core styles. Other pieces publish the fiber breakdown alone. Many carry neither: nothing unusual for accessories, but worth knowing before comparing pieces. Seasonal graphics reuse the same construction language without repeating the numbers, and the documented pieces are the classics. Choosing alocs clothing on specification rather than artwork means beginning there.

Organic cotton jersey: the classic tees at 6.5 oz

A 6.5 oz 100% organic cotton relaxed-fit tee with jumbo screen prints front and back and a yellow woven label at the hem: that is the published copy for the Classic Cough Syrup T-Shirt. In the jersey band it sits mid-to-upper, above the four-ounce cloth used for cheap blanks and below eight-ounce boxy heavyweights. In wear it should hang rather than cling, stay opaque over a dark waistband and take a wide print without curling. It likewise survives repeated washing better than lightweight jersey. The classic tee runs about $150 at the brand’s own store as of September 2026, and prices here move. Other tees are listed as 100% cotton and no weight, and a few as lightweight jersey rinsed for a vintage feel.

Heavy fleece: the 16 oz hoodie and the 14 oz sweatpants

Published copy for the Classic Cough Syrup Hoodie reads 16 oz 100% organic cotton, hand-dyed and printed in Los Angeles, with the yellow woven label at the wearer’s bottom left. Genuinely heavy fleece is what sixteen ounces buys you, well above mass-market hoodies and above most premium cut-and-sew work. At this density it is stiff out of the box, takes months to break in and holds a structured shoulder. Different cloth goes into the Classic Cough Syrup Sweatpants: 14 oz fleece of 80% cotton and 20% recycled polyester. The knee and seat bagging that pure cotton fleece develops is held off by that polyester share. The set is therefore two weights and two fiber mixes, both about $200 at the brand’s own store as of September 2026.

Denim: the Double Cup Cargo Shorts at 14 oz

The Double Cup Cargo Shorts are the only product in the store’s denim collection, published as mid-rise 14 oz denim garment-dyed through a double dye process meant to mimic sun-fading. Construction notes of unusual specificity follow: double-layer double cup pockets at the back, cargo pockets at the side, button fly and a custom leather patch. Fourteen ounces is mid-heavy denim, above most fashion denim and short of raw denim’s twenty-ounce range. Structure is what that weight buys on a short: the leg stands off the thigh and empty cargo pockets keep shape. Waist sizes run 28 to 44, with flat measurements starting at 29.5 inches on a small. Nowhere is the fiber content of the denim published, only the weight.

Cotton-poly workwear: the Dickies pieces

A fiber breakdown with no ounce weight is how the workwear line is documented. 65% cotton and 35% polyester makes up the Cough Syrup Dickies Jacket, which is fully lined, with two welt pockets and a pencil pocket on the sleeve. Built on the Dickies 1574 work shirt, the button-down carries the same 65/35 blend. That ratio is the workwear standard, and for practical reasons: polyester holds a crease, resists abrasion and limits shrinkage. Since the base garments are a known industrial pattern, construction is documented by the body even without a weight. These sit at the top of the range, with the jacket around $350 at the brand’s own store as of September 2026.

Blends across the accessories: boxers, tanks and socks

The smaller pieces give composition without weight, the normal convention in these categories. 95% cotton and 5% elastane with a logo woven waistband, made in Los Angeles: that is the published Cough Syrup Boxers. The five percent keeps a mid-rise boxer from riding up, and it is the component most likely to degrade first. The least specific claim in the catalogue belongs to the Cough Syrup Socks, described only as a cotton blend with no percentages. 100% combed cotton is how tank tops and crop tops are listed, meaning short fibers are removed before spinning for a smoother yarn. No comparison across brands is possible beyond the fiber list, because none of these carries an ounce figure.

All the published numbers in a single table

Read product pages one at a time and the gaps take longer to show; pulled into one place, the figures expose them quickly. No entry below comes from anywhere but the brand’s own published copy as of September 2026. A cell saying a figure is not published is a statement about the catalogue, not an estimate. The right-hand column is the interpretation, offered as context for what each number does in wear. Weights may change between production runs without announcement, so check a current page before buying on a number. The table shows four classic styles documented and little else.

Where the garments are made, and how

Again and again the product copy states Made in Los Angeles, and on some pieces it goes further. Hand-dyed and printed here in Los Angeles is the Classic Hoodie, with tees screen-printed in Los Angeles and one tee handmade with a rough stencil print. Hand-dyeing has the most practical consequence, because it produces variation between units, so two hoodies in one colourway are not guaranteed to match. The process causes it; it is not a fault. At the hem on tees and at the wearer’s bottom left on the hoodie, the yellow woven label is the detail that stays consistent. A Black-owned business is how the company is also described, and no mill, factory or supplier is ever named.

What the brand never publishes

This is the section that matters most before spending $200 on a hoodie. Washing or care instructions are not published anywhere: not on product pages, not in the FAQ, and not on the sizing pages, which render without content as of September 2026. A global size chart does not exist, and fit guidance is per product and not uniform: some tees run true to size, others one or two sizes small. No independent lab test, shrinkage measurement or durability report has been produced for any of these fabrics, by the brand or by anyone else. The 16 oz figure is therefore a manufacturer’s specification nobody outside the company has verified. Search for care guidance on thats a awful lot of cough syrup pieces and you get nothing back, because nothing has been written.

Using the spec sheet without over-reading it

The whole of what this brand quantifies comes to four numbers: 6.5, 16, 14 and 14, and nothing else. That is more than many labels in the same band commit to in writing. They are useful precisely because they are checkable, since a 16 oz hoodie feels unmistakably different in the hand from a ten-ounce one. A copy sold at a third of the price is not cut from sixteen-ounce organic fleece, which makes these the cheapest counterfeit test you have. Take the published weights, the Los Angeles production claim and the garment in front of you when judging cough syrup clothing, and leave the rest open. They cannot tell you how seams are finished on awful lot of cough syrup pieces, or how a print holds after twenty washes.