When you didn't have much money, you could either be not picky about your Halloween costume, or you could go, searching through the materials you had and get creative. And so Xander was looking through some stuff his parents, or other relatives, had dumped in the attic of their home, after he had gone through the basement and his own room with little success.
He had almost lost hope when he found it... the idea was doable and it wouldn't cost much to buy the items he couldn't find.
The mirror showed him a changed face. Costume make-up and some sure lines, he'd let Willow draw, to give his eyes a more oriental look, his dark hair and dark eyes doing the rest at creating the image of arabian ancestery.
He had found an old caftan in one of the clothing trunks his parents had stowed in their attic and had forgotten about, something in a fake-indian look that had been fashionable during the hippie times, and he sooo didn't want to think about what his parents had done during those times.
The trousers he had bought in the shop that had just opened and was advertising reduced opening prices, along with the shoes and the ring. Oh yes, the ring was important, without the ring he wasn't the real deal, but only the Disney version of the story and he wanted to be the real one.
Finally he picked up the last prop. He had found it in the same trunk he had found his parents new age and hippie stuff in and from the way it looked, his parents had been crazy about India at that time, for it looked rather authentic.
Well, it didn't really matter if the thing was a replica or the real deal, but as long as he had it, his costume would work.
After all, who had ever read about Aladdin without reading about the lamp?