When you consider that every pair of jeans, crappy or good, has a hidden cost of several gallons of burned diesel, several square meters of razed wildlands, and many kilos of natural resources that needed to be collected, processed, transported, reprocessed, re-transported, several times over, it's hard to call that a feature.
Think about all the cotton, then thread, then cloth, plus dye, plus metal, plus other thread for putting it together, all the transportation and machinery, all the manual labor in poor conditions, and so on, which go into that cheap pair of jeans. Now, consider that every time you buy a pair, you're voting for more of that to happen. Now, consider the environmental and habitat cost to us and the rest of the world contained in that one "cheap" pair of jeans.
I would not call that a feature.