A Guide to ALOCS Shorts Value Over Time

The Double Cup Cargo Shorts, spec sheet first

The Double Cup Cargo Shorts is the whole denim collection at That’s A Awful Lot Of Cough Syrup right now, which currently holds exactly one product. Built from 14 oz denim, a mid-weight that holds a leg shape rather than collapsing, the rise is mid. Color is set by a garment dye, applied through what the brand calls a double dye process to mimic sun-fading, so two pairs in the same awfullottacoughsyrup.com colorway will not be identical. The construction details get specific: double-layer double cup pockets at the back, cargo pockets at the side, a button fly, and a custom leather patch. Carried over from the graphics into the pocket build, the brand’s own cup motif is what the name refers to. Four colorways appear, Grey, Black/Green, Purple and Red, with the size run going by waist rather than by letter. As of September 2026, the brand’s own store has it at about $150, listed against a higher compare-at figure of $300, and that kind of markdown does not stay live forever.

The shorts rail beyond the denim

Most alocs shorts searches actually end up in the much wider shorts offering around that single denim style, headline though denim is. The Glocc Shorts, Mexico Glocc Shorts and USA Glocc Shorts make up the main tier at about $150, running as a set of three variations on the same graphic idea. From the same capsule, published to the store in July 2026, come the ALOCS x Stinc Team Dragon Shorts, alongside the Awful Lot Of Stincs Shorts and the Awful Lot Of Stincs Buddha Shorts. Closing out that price tier are the Awful Lot Of Chiefin Heavily Shorts and the Classic Sweat Shorts, the sweat short being the obvious pairing for the matching fleece bottoms in the catalogue. Below that, the Awful Lot Of Respect Cuhh Shorts land at about $100 and the Women’s Booty Shorts at about $60, which is what gives the category its $60 to $150 band. The brand also runs a Mystery Shorts item at about $50 as a standing clearance mechanic, so the floor can dip below that band when stock needs clearing. What the brand’s own store showed as of September 2026 is where every one of these figures comes from, and this label re-prices with drops.

Beyond the shorts: denim and workwear

The shorts are not the end of the denim if that is the reason you are here, they are just the only denim short. At about $300 each the ALOCS Denim Jacket runs in Black, Blue and Tan, and the ALOCS Carpenter Pants run in the same three colors at the same price. As a full-length companion for the cargo short, those carpenter pants are the closest the catalogue gets, and they carry the same waist-based sizing logic. Sitting next to the denim is a workwear line built on Dickies bodies, including the Cough Syrup Loose Fit Dickies Pants at about $250 and the Glocc Dickies Pants at about $300, both published as a 65% cotton and 35% polyester blend. Workwear here is a hard-wearing poly-cotton twill while the denim is raw weight in cotton, and that blend is the giveaway that the two are different propositions. Across all of it the construction signals stay constant, with the signature yellow woven label appearing garment after garment in the brand’s own copy. The pieces are made in Los Angeles, hand-dyed and printed there, and screen-printed there according to product copy, which is a real cost input at these prices.

Every style at a glance

Nothing but what the brand publishes goes into the table below, and nothing beyond it. Where a product page gives no fabric weight or flat measurement, the cell says so instead of guessing at a number. The prices here are the brand’s own store figures as of September 2026 and will move with drops, restocks and sale periods. The fit notes run per product, because this label publishes them per product and they are not uniform across the catalogue. The denim short carries the most detail because it is the only entry with a full published measurement table. Use it as a shortlist and then open the individual listing for the style you want before choosing a size.

Style	Price tag	Measurements or material published	What the brand says on fit
Double Cup Cargo Shorts	about $150, listed from $300 as compare-at	14 oz denim; from S 29.5″ waist / 7.75″ inseam up to 2XL 37.5″ / 9.5″	True to size; take one size up for oversized
Glocc, Mexico Glocc, USA Glocc Shorts	about $150 each	Not separately listed	Check the note on the product page
Awful Lot Of Stincs Shorts	about $150	Not separately stated	Check the note on that product
Awful Lot Of Stincs Buddha Shorts	around $150	Not separately stated	Check the note on that product
ALOCS x Stinc Team Dragon Shorts	about $150 or so	Not published separately	Check the note on the product page
Awful Lot Of Chiefin Heavily Shorts	about $150	Not separately published	Check the note on that product
Classic Sweat Shorts	about $150	Not separately published by the brand	Check the note on that product
Awful Lot Of Respect Cuhh Shorts	about $100 or so	Not separately listed	Check the product note
Women’s Booty Shorts	around $60	Not separately published	True to size, as published
ALOCS Denim Jacket, Black, Blue, Tan	roughly $300 apiece	Denim; weight not separately published	Sized by letter, not waist
ALOCS Carpenter Pants, Black, Blue, Tan	about $300 apiece	Denim; weight not published separately	Waist sizing, 28 to 44

On sizing, read the waist rather than the letter

Waist measurement, running 28 to 44, is how denim and workwear are sold at this label, and it removes most of the guesswork that letter sizing introduces. There is a full flat table on the Double Cup Cargo Shorts: small is a 29.5 inch waist with a 7.75 inch inseam, medium 31.5 and 8, large 33.5 and 8.5, extra large 35.5 and 9, and 2XL 37.5 and 9.5. The inseam grows half an inch per size, which keeps the short roughly the same length on the leg as the waist grows rather than dropping toward the knee. Explicit fit guidance comes with this style: it runs true to size, and for an oversized fit you size up one. Because that single step is the whole instruction, going up two on a 14 oz denim body will read as baggy rather than oversized. The rest of the shorts rail mostly does not publish measurements, which means the per-product fit sentence is the only guidance you get. Stated plainly, the brand publishes no global size chart and no washing instructions anywhere on its store, so do not assume a care routine from the garment-dye alone.

The searches people actually run

That word needs handling carefully, because a large share of the traffic looking for denim shorts from this label arrives typing jorts. The brand does not use the word, anywhere, on any product page or in any product name. The only denim short in the catalogue is the Double Cup Cargo Shorts, which is what searchers mean by it, so the useful translation is simply that the jorts everybody is asking about are the Double Cup Cargo Shorts. None of the spellings people type are the brand’s own, and the brand name itself runs the same pattern, coming out as awful lot of cough syrup, awful lotta cough syrup and a dozen other near-misses. That matters practically, because a lot of stores selling cough syrup clothing under those spellings have no connection to the label at all. Checking the garment is what works: the yellow woven label, the published 14 oz denim spec, the real price levels, and whether the product name appears in the brand’s own catalogue. In person there are the Los Angeles stores at 7669 Melrose Ave and 312 W 5th St and the Houston store at 5410 Almeda Rd for anyone shopping alocs clothing, and online you should re-check the current price before buying, since everything quoted here is a September 2026 snapshot.