Your daughter got lucky, she still got to her destination. My mom and I got rebooked when the check-in agents couldn't get customers' bags checked in in a timely manner the morning of my flight (despite getting there 2 hours early). A bunch of people missed their flights and got rebooked. We ended up with a flight that had a connection and Southwest cancelled the second leg to our final destination. Bought tickets out of pocket. And then our flight home was cancelled to...ugh. I would report the lost bag here and also attach receipts for what your daughter spent on clothing. Supposedly, Southwest will reimburse for costs within reason: https://support.southwest.com/email-us/s/. I'm using this to request reimbursements for my costs as well...not sure how long it'll take to get the reimbursements since they're going to get thousands of requests, so we'll see...
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