How to Wear ALOCS Tees A Closer Look

Three addresses, and what the documentation really supports

That’s A Awful Lot Of Cough Syrup sells in person from three confirmed addresses: 7669 Melrose Ave and 312 W 5th St in Los Angeles, and 5410 Almeda Rd in Houston. None of the three turns up on a store locator, as the brand’s site does not run one, and the addresses come from the company’s own social profile instead. That is thinner documentation than a city guide would want, and it shapes everything below. Shoppers arrive searching for alocs clothing, cough syrup clothing and a dozen other spellings, and the stores carry the same catalogue the website does. The label is a Los Angeles company founded by Desto Dubb, who started out selling clothes from a an awful lot of cough syrup van in a downtown parking lot. Promethazine-codeine cough syrup, known as lean, is what the name refers to, which is context for the signage and nothing more.

7669 Melrose Ave, Los Angeles

The flagship is the Melrose Avenue store, and the founder uses that address as his own display name on social media. It stands on the stretch of Melrose that has carried streetwear retail for decades, so it is the easiest of the three to fold into a shopping afternoon. Long lines here and limited-edition drops are what coverage of the company describes, so a release day and a quiet weekday are different experiences. This is a documented drop location too: the BlueBucksClan capsule, That’s A Awful Lot of Legendary, was released at this address on 28 April 2023. Reporting from 2023 noted a No Jumper store opening next door, which is a useful landmark if it still stands. A collaboration pop-up with Cookies was staged a few blocks along the same street, at 8360 Melrose Avenue, in April 2023, and this stretch has therefore hosted the company more than once. The core range should sit at the usual levels, about $150 for a tee and about $200 for a hoodie at the company’s own store as of September 2026, and those numbers move.

312 W 5th St, Los Angeles

Downtown holds the second Los Angeles address, 312 W 5th St, and it is a different trip from Melrose in every practical sense. Downtown is where the business began, since the founder sold clothes out of a van in a parking lot there before any storefront existed. Past the address itself, the research turns up almost nothing: no opening date, no floor plan, no dedicated coverage and no posted hours. If you are planning a route, pair this one with downtown errands rather than with Melrose, because the two sit a long crosstown drive apart. It is a confirmed listing rather than a profiled store, and should be treated that way. Stock should follow the same catalogue, including alocs shorts at about $150 and the denim cargo shorts at about $150 at the brand’s own store as of September 2026.

5410 Almeda Rd, Houston

Only one confirmed location sits outside California: Houston, at 5410 Almeda Rd. It keeps its own store account on social media, separate from the main brand account, and that is the clearest sign it runs as a shop in its own right rather than as a stockist. The brand’s own about page talks about running stores across Southern California, a phrase that plainly does not cover Texas, so the two statements sit awkwardly beside each other and neither carries a date. For a label built in southern rap markets a Houston store makes obvious sense, though that is inference rather than documentation. Nothing establishes the store’s size, its opening date or its hours. Search thats a awful lot of cough syrup Houston and you will find plenty of posts and very little verifiable detail.

Hollywood Park, Inglewood: what a temporary store looked like

Stores this brand opens are not all permanent. At Rolling Loud California, held from 14 to 17 March 2024 at Hollywood Park in Inglewood, the label ran two onsite stores inside a carnival it built for the festival, arcade games and swing ride included. Real while it lasts and gone afterward, a pop-up address means an old post is not evidence that a shop exists today. No documented example of temporary retail under the awful lot of cough syrup name is clearer. The same caution applies to collaboration pop-ups the label has hosted inside other retailers’ stores. If something is announced for a weekend, read it as a weekend.

The brand’s own online store, and how ordering works

The brand runs its own online store, and no web address for it is printed in this guide, by design. It is a Shopify storefront carrying roughly 154 products at the last count, across tees, hoodies, sweatpants, shorts, denim, workwear and accessories. Per-product fit notes are posted and they are not uniform, most pieces described as true to size and a few explicitly running small, so read the product copy instead of assuming. On most apparel sizes run XS to 3XL, denim and workwear sell by waist from 28 to 44, and there is a small kids range. Stock, not choice, is the real constraint, as about 43 percent of size variants were sold out when the catalogue was checked in September 2026. Neither a global size chart nor washing instructions render on the site, which is a genuine gap when you are buying hand-dyed pieces unseen. The store also runs sale and deals sections, where mystery items sold at roughly half the standard price as of September 2026.

Shipping and returns, exactly as posted

The terms as published are brief, and worth knowing before checkout. Domestic orders are stated to take up to five business days, and international orders up to fourteen. Both windows are upper bounds rather than guarantees. Refunds must be requested within a month of purchase, which is a shorter window than some shoppers expect. Return shipping is paid by the customer, so ordering two sizes of a hoodie at about $200 to try at home carries a real cost. Large domestic orders get free shipping, there is no free option on international shipping, and the posted terms do not define what counts as large. Nothing published covers exchanges, so plan around the refund window rather than assuming a swap is available.

What could not be verified about these stores

Three gaps should be stated plainly rather than papered over. No opening date has been published for any of the three stores. Current opening hours are posted for no location either. Nor could it be confirmed that all three are still trading, which is the gap that matters most if you are getting in a car. There is no store locator to check them against, and the addresses come from a social profile rather than a maintained page. If a location closes or moves, the company’s own posts will almost certainly show it before any directory catches up. Call ahead, or read the store’s own posts for that day, and when a listing for cough syrup clothing quotes hours with total confidence, ask where it got them. For authenticity, the garment is what to judge rather than the shopfront: the yellow woven label, the published fabric weights of 6.5 oz on classic tees and 16 oz on the classic hoodie, prices at the real levels, and a product name that actually appears in the label’s own catalogue.