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Assuming it is their lengths that you want to measure, centimetres for your feet and millimetres for your toes.

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I would advise consistency - use one or the other but not both. Mixing them like that is not good practice, and you won't find such mixtures used in laboratories and workshops.

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Strictly speaking the metre and the millimetre are the "Preferred Units" but the SI tolerates the centimetre for everyday things like clothes sizes. Please don't shoot the messenger: the metric system and its SI offspring were never designed around human proportions!

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