Fix them up, that way you will not be afraid to take them out and hug them from time to time. One way to do it is to cover the areas with the bad fabric with top quality bridal veil netting, it will never be noticed, unless you point it out, it is soft and just blends into the fabric.
The reason that one fabric is so bad is that in some of the old dyes, it made the fabric weak, so it was actually hurting itself.
I am glad that you have these.