The two "older" suits were purchased 3 yrs ago before my cousins wedding (Size42). Brooks employee wrote down the size (40short) & style (Fitzgerald) on a pieces of post-it and handed it to us. I wonder if the handwritten note will work as evident, which I highly doubt since we didn't even get the name of the employee. In any case, I think we (more my husband than me because it is really his fault) will accept and move on. We just chalk it up as part of the funeral expense. Thanks all!
You can easily go back to the same store, find the employee, and ask his name, and even snap a photo if you wanted. You could also ask him to look up the old order again, and have him show you where the old order is described as 40 or 42. (You could even snap a photo of the computer screen if it says 42.)
Hell, in many states you could even take video of you asking him to look up the old order in the computer system and if the computer says 42, you then showing him his own post-it note of "40 short". (It's somewhat theatrical and over-the-top but it'd prove the point.)
Then you could send the story summary, the employee name, and photo of his post-it note noting "40 short" to the Brooks Brother executive response team.