Which classic Halloween costume is typically made from a white sheet with eyeholes? A ghost costume is the classic answer.
The homemade design uses a white sheet draped over the body, with holes cut for the wearer’s eyes. Its simplicity makes it one of the most recognizable do-it-yourself costumes, even though modern versions may use fabric robes, masks, or makeup instead.
Ghost imagery has long been connected with Halloween’s themes of the dead and the supernatural. In parts of Europe, medieval Allhallowtide traditions included beliefs about the dead returning, while later Halloween customs turned those ideas into playful disguises. White cloth also became a visual shorthand for a pale, wandering spirit.
A ghost costume is not the same as Ghostface, the masked killer from the Scream films. Nor is every white-sheet costume necessarily meant to represent a ghost: historical disguises and theatrical costumes have used similar materials. Still, among standard Halloween costume categories, the sheet-with-eyeholes design is unambiguously associated with a ghost.