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How product reaches shoppers at That’s A Awful Lot Of Cough Syrup

Stock lands here in batches instead of seasonal ranges. At a week-or-two clip fresh lines land on the brand’s own online store, and then move through its shops in Los Angeles and Houston. That store’s feed, read on 29 September 2026, shows posting dates that cluster hard: twelve products on 24 July 2026, eleven on 12 September, ten on 25 September. Outside coverage of the label reports long lines that a whole lot of cough syrup at the Melrose Avenue store and limited-edition drops. A drop calendar is published nowhere. Quick sell-through is the rule: 619 of 1,443 size variants were sold out that day, close to 43 percent.

The one ongoing mechanic is the mystery item: a mystery tee at about $75, mystery shorts at about $50, at the brand’s own store as of September 2026. Treat those as a snapshot, since prices and stock shift constantly. Listings for alocs clothing and cough syrup clothing often promise restocks; the brand has promised nothing of the kind. A sold-out size may never return, since no restock policy is published.

Reading the dated collaboration record

What follows is every collaboration and activation the research documents, in date order, nothing added from resale chatter. The source is named in every entry: coverage published at the time, a partner’s own post, the brand’s blog, or a store feed date. A feed date records when product went live, not when a deal was struck. None is invented here where a piece list or a price was never published. The brand’s name refers to promethazine-codeine cough syrup, known as lean, which explains the medical and horror imagery in these releases. Several entries are thin and stay thin.

8 April 2023: the Cookies pop-up

First by date is the collaboration with Cookies, the brand co-founded by Berner. The launch came on 8 April 2023 under the name That’s A Awful Lot Of Cookies. The pop-up was staged at the Cookies store at 8360 Melrose Avenue. Note it as a dated event, not a catalogue entry. Coverage from an outside publication at the time is what puts it in the confirmed column. That coverage includes no piece list and no prices.

28 April 2023: BlueBucksClan and That’s A Awful Lot of Legendary

It was titled That’s A Awful Lot of Legendary and released on 28 April 2023 at the 7669 Melrose Avenue flagship. Three weeks later came a capsule with the Los Angeles duo BlueBucksClan. The late Drakeo The Ruler was honored by the drop, and every account of it leads with that. What the sourcing covers is the event and the intent, not the fabric. It is one of the few releases documented by an outside publication at the time. Date this one and stop, if you are cataloguing thats a awful lot of cough syrup collaborations.

11 March 2024: the collaboration with 310babii

With that post as the only source, the date is solid and the substance is thin. On 11 March 2024 the brand announced a collaboration with 310babii on its own blog. A March 2024 stretch opens here that was busy even by this label’s standards, four activations in nineteen days. Reading the blog against the store feed does not settle which products belonged to it. Nothing fixes the piece count, the colorways or the prices. A name and a date make up the honest entry.

14 to 17 March 2024: Rolling Loud California

The largest documented activation is Rolling Loud California, staged from 14 to 17 March 2024 at Hollywood Park in Inglewood. The brand put up a carnival on site, with arcade games and a swing ride, and worked two onsite stores across the four days. That, from the brand’s own release, is the whole sourced description. A footprint of that size is not a capsule; product was sold, but the thing was staged as an attraction. It also supplies a rare fixed date range for temporary retail under the awful lot of cough syrup banner. No attendance figure and no product list appear in the documentation.

19 March 2024: the pop-up at Got Sole

What survives is a recap on the brand’s own blog, the label’s account of its own booth. On 19 March 2024 the brand appeared at Got Sole in Los Angeles, two days after the festival closed. Got Sole operates as a sneaker and streetwear convention, which makes this trade-show retail, not a partnership. No documentation shows a collaborative product exclusive to that weekend. The entry delivers a date, plus the fact that the brand works conventions. Inflating it further would be fabrication.

29 March 2024: the drop of the Dodger Collection

The month closed with the Dodger Collection, published on the brand’s blog on 29 March 2024. The post lists a hoodie, a tee, a fitted cap and a dad hat, and kids tees, the clearest piece list in this record. Nothing in the post establishes whether any license sat behind the name. No other named collection has documented headwear, which matters practically. The store’s hat collection returns no products as of September 2026, so no cap from it can be bought new. Date it to March 2024 and then describe the contents the way the brand did.

April 2024: Trapstar out of London

The strongest evidence on this page belongs to Trapstar, because the London label published the collaboration from its own verified accounts in April 2024. A partner’s evidence outweighs a reseller’s caption and takes away the question of who authorized what. On a resale platform, a Trapstar collaboration hoodie is catalogued at about $150 retail under a spring 2025 season code. Because resale platforms hold secondhand records, that figure is reported rather than confirmed. No official piece list beyond the hoodie is documented. Among every entry here, this is the one to lean on hardest.

1 August 2025: shoes from Rhime

As of September 2026 The Rhime Shoes sat at about $100, down from about $200, at the brand’s own store; prices change. Rhime USA carried footwear into the catalogue, its shoes published to the store on 1 August 2025. Tracing most of its collaborations means reading dated posts, since they never get a permanent catalogue home. No launch coverage outside the store listing was found. The store’s own collaborations collection contains only this product. The entry is a product record with a publication date, not an announced event.

24 July 2026: the capsule with Stinc Team

The latest documented collaboration remains Stinc Team, published to the store on 24 July 2026. It takes in an ALOCS x Stinc Team Dragon tee and shorts, plus a wider Awful Lot Of Stincs capsule. Shorts from it were priced at about $150 at the brand’s own store as of September 2026. Because the date comes from the store feed, it marks when product went live. No press release accompanied it in the material reviewed. It is confirmed as product, a narrower claim than confirmed as a campaign.

What is confirmed, what is only claimed and what merely circulates

Everything above rests on a dated source, and three further items do not. First is a capsule the store published on 12 September 2026 under the ALOCS x YSL name, a bandana at about $30 up to a hoodie at about $200. Real products, sold by the brand, but nothing establishes who the other party is, so no partner is named here and the capsule stands as unconfirmed. The second of them is a Cartoon Network collaboration, turning up on resale listings and in a store collection name but with no announcement and no licensing confirmation. The third of them is an LRG collaboration at ComplexCon, which the brand’s own press release names once with no date attached. That press release also names music artists as past merch collaborators, which is the brand’s undated claim about itself. Neither of those has independent confirmation, and calling either a licensed collaboration would be a guess dressed as a fact. The two columns are kept apart in the table on purpose.