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Yes, it is likely that some (younger) women will not remember or be aware that pointed toes were very much a unisex fashion (late-50s - mid-60s) and, whilst they have never really disappeared on female shoes, have again been fashionable (but not nearly so universal) on men's shoes during the last 10 years or so. My wife is well aware of their history and her firm association of men's 'winklepickers' with the 1960s makes them, in her view, both old-fashioned (and therefore unacceptable currently) for a man, especially one of my 'mature years'. She finds it hard to understand my nostalgic appreciation of anything that is not recent or current (fashion; black and white films; steam railways; lead-based paint ...) and tries to avoid same.