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Double Cup Cargo Shorts: the spec sheet

Only one product sits in the denim collection at That’s A Awful Lot Of Cough Syrup at present, and that product is the Double Cup Cargo Shorts. 14 oz denim is the fabric, a mid-weight that holds a leg shape rather than collapsing, and the rise is mid. A garment dye supplies the color, applied through what the brand calls a double dye process to mimic sun-fading, which means two pairs in the same colorway will not be identical. Construction is described in detail: double-layer double cup pockets at the back, cargo pockets at the side, a button fly, and a custom leather patch. A straight reference black alocs hoodie to the brand’s own cup motif is where the name comes from, carried over from the graphics into the pocket build. The store lists four colorways, Grey, Black/Green, Purple and Red, and the size run goes by waist rather than by letter. The price sits at about $150 at the brand’s own store as of September 2026, listed against a higher compare-at figure of $300, and that kind of markdown does not stay live forever.

What sits on the shorts rail besides denim

Denim gets the headline, yet it is a single style inside a much wider shorts offering, and that is where most alocs shorts searches actually end up. At about $150 the main tier includes the Glocc Shorts, Mexico Glocc Shorts and USA Glocc Shorts, which run 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. The Awful Lot Of Chiefin Heavily Shorts and the Classic Sweat Shorts finish that price tier, with the sweat short the obvious pairing for the matching fleece bottoms in the catalogue. What gives the category its $60 to $150 band is the tier below, where the Awful Lot Of Respect Cuhh Shorts land at about $100 and the Women’s Booty Shorts at about $60, which is what sets the lower figure. The brand also keeps 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.

What else is cut from 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. Across Black, Blue and Tan the ALOCS Denim Jacket runs at about $300 each, and the ALOCS Carpenter Pants run in the same three colors at the same price. The closest thing the catalogue has to a full-length companion for the cargo short is those carpenter pants, and they carry the same waist-based sizing logic. Alongside the denim runs 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. That blend gives the game away, workwear and denim being different propositions here: one is a hard-wearing poly-cotton twill, the other is raw weight in cotton. The construction signals stay constant across all of it, and the signature yellow woven label appears garment after garment in the brand’s own copy. Made in Los Angeles, hand-dyed and printed there, and screen-printed there is what the product copy also states, and that is a real cost input at these prices.

The whole lineup at a glance

What the brand publishes, and nothing beyond it, is what the table below lists. Rather than guessing at a number, the cell says so where a product page gives no fabric weight or flat measurement. These are the brand’s own store figures as of September 2026, and they will move with drops, restocks and sale periods. Fit notes are per product, because this label publishes them per product and they are not uniform across the catalogue. A full published measurement table exists for the denim short alone, and that is why it carries the most detail. Use it as a shortlist and then open the individual listing for the style you want before choosing a size.

Sizing: the waist matters, not the letter

Denim and workwear at this label are sold by waist measurement, running 28 to 44, which removes most of the guesswork that letter sizing introduces. The Double Cup Cargo Shorts come with a full flat table: 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. This style has explicit fit guidance: 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. Measurements mostly do not get published across the rest of the shorts rail, so the per-product fit sentence is the only guidance you get. It is also worth stating plainly that 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.

What searchers are actually after

A large share of the traffic looking for denim shorts from this label arrives typing the word jorts, and that word needs handling carefully. It is not used by the brand, 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. The brand name itself runs the same way, typed as awful lot of cough syrup, awful lotta cough syrup and a dozen other near-misses, none of which are the brand’s own spelling. A lot of stores selling cough syrup clothing under those spellings have no connection to the label at all, and that is the practical reason it matters. The garment checks are the ones that work: 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. Anyone shopping alocs clothing in person has the Los Angeles stores at 7669 Melrose Ave and 312 W 5th St or the Houston store at 5410 Almeda Rd, while anyone shopping online should re-check the current price before buying, since everything quoted here is a September 2026 snapshot.