With shoes like loafers, dress shoes, and leather sneakers rising, it’s easy to give in to the leather footwear trend.

Use a stain remover like Amodex Ink & Stain Remover to spot-clean lighter stains on the fabric parts of leather shoes. Andrea Barnes/NYT Wirecutter 4. Allow your shoes to fully air-dry.

Please remember that this particular product is designed for non-waterproof shoes made from leather, fabric, synthetic, cork, rubber and plastic. There are cleaning products for waterproof shoes ...

Dip a clean cloth or sponge in the solution and ... It should tell you if you can machine-wash or not. Shoes made of leather, suede, rubber and vinyl should never be put in the washing machine.