I'm sure this is a lesson learned for you, but NEVER have I checked suits, socks, shoes that I need the next day for an important meeting. Weather, delays and mis-connects are always forefront in my mind when I travel and enters into any decision on what I will or will not check. I always have my laptop and at least a day or two of business attire in a suit bag. The previous poster was correct, there really was nothing other than understanding the agent could do.