The part that is missing is the place to start

The honest opening to any care guide for this label is an absence. Washing and care instructions are not published by That’s A Awful Lot Of Cough Syrup anywhere at all: not on the product pages, not in a care section, not in a policy page. Its two size-chart pages render without any chart or That’s A Awful Lot Of Cough Syrup care content at all, so there is no global reference document to fall back on. The FAQ does exist, but it covers payments, shipping and refunds, and stops at that. Nothing that follows can be passed off as the brand’s instruction, because the brand has not given one. General garment-care practice for the fabric weights and constructions the brand does publish is what follows, clearly separated from the handful of things it actually states.

What the brand does put out, fabric by fabric

The specifications are detailed, and that makes the silence on care more noticeable. 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. Hand-dyed and printed in Los Angeles, the Classic Cough Syrup Hoodie is published at 16 oz organic cotton and 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. The Double Cup Cargo Shorts are 14 oz denim, garment-dyed by what the brand calls a double dye process to mimic sun-fading. The signature yellow woven label goes on the garments, while the Dickies pieces are published as a 65/35 cotton-polyester blend.

Organic cotton jersey, first

The bulk of the cough syrup clothing you are likely to own is built 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: that much 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. All of that is standard handling for the fabric and the construction, not something the label has told anyone to do.

The heavyweight cotton and fleece

The heavy end of the range holds two pieces. Hand-dyed and printed in Los Angeles, the awful lot of cough syrup hoodie in the classic cut is published as 16 oz organic cotton, which is unusually heavy for a hood. The sweatpants come as a 14 oz fleece at 80 percent cotton and 20 percent recycled polyester, with the logo screen printed across the front and up the back legs. Neither one carries a published wash instruction, a shrinkage note or a drying recommendation. Since dense fabrics take their shape from how they dry, general practice for heavy cotton fleece runs to a cool wash, a gentle cycle to protect the loft, and drying flat or on low heat. 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

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. It publishes none of it: whether that denim is raw or pre-washed, whether it will shrink, or whether the dye will transfer to lighter fabrics or upholstery. There is no answer on the site to that last question, which matters with any garment-dyed indigo or overdyed piece. 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

Because of the polyester content, the Dickies line works 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. 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, though no care guidance whatsoever. Because high heat is harder on polyester than on cotton, general practice for a 65/35 shirt runs to a warm or cool machine wash and a low drying heat. A fully lined jacket is another proposition entirely, and lined outerwear is often handled professionally rather than at home.

On the screen-printed graphics

They are the reason most people bought the garment, so the prints get their own section here. 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. Water-based inks sit into the fabric rather than on top of it and feel softer, thicker prints sit on the surface, and the brand does not label which pieces use which. Whether a print should be washed inside out, ironed over or tumble dried: none of that is published. General practice with a large screen print 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. Heat produces cracked or faded artwork as a rule, and heat is 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, since heavy knits behave badly on hangers: 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. Folded, or hung by the waistband away from direct sunlight, is where denim is happiest, since light will fade a dyed finish unevenly. The real enemy across all of it is damp, which nothing about alocs clothing changes. Brand guidance this is not; it is ordinary practice for those weights, and it is worth saying plainly because the brand says nothing.

A single table holding the whole picture

The two categories that matter here are kept apart by the table. What the brand actually publishes sits in one column, and it is a useful set of facts about weight and composition. Another holds general practice for that fabric, 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. Somebody’s reconstruction, not a published document, is what any care chart attributed to this brand elsewhere amounts to.

The fabric	What the brand does publish	General practice for that fabric	What the brand does not say
Jersey in organic cotton	6.5 oz organic cotton, relaxed fit, jumbo prints	Cool wash, inside out, gentle drying	Temperature, cycle, shrinkage and ironing
Heavy cotton and fleece	16 oz cotton hoodie, hand-dyed; 14 oz 80/20 fleece	A cool gentle wash, dried flat or on low heat	Anything whatever about hand-dye colour settling
Dyed denim	14 oz denim, garment-dyed, leather patch	Wash rarely, cold, inside out, air-dry	Raw or pre-washed, shrinkage, and dye transfer
Workwear in cotton-poly	65 percent cotton with 35 percent polyester	Warm or cool wash, low drying heat	Care of the lined jacket
The screen-printed artwork	Screen-printed in Los Angeles, some water-based ink	Inside out, cool water, never a direct iron	Ink type per garment, and heat tolerance

Living with the gap

Against the clothes this is no argument at all. 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. Ask at the brand’s own store, or at its locations in Los Angeles and Houston, if a definitive answer matters, and 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.