Spot-clean

“You can ruin the cloth if you try to spot-clean it,” warns Susan Fritz, co-owner of Denver Doll Hospital, a doll-cleaning and restoration business.

If you need to spot-clean a dryclean-only fabric, try using Energine Cleaning Fluid, available at grocery and hardware stores.

To spot-clean, you can either use a dry-cleaning solution or a very mild, nonperfumed soap or Woolite and water.