Hey y'all! Who has good shorts tips?

I live in the Northeast USA, and while making it through the long winter and the promise of warmer weather makes me want to keep living, I always dread the annual ordeal of looking for shorts.

In my experience, jean shorts are either too short (like if they have a cuff, the cuffs meet at exactly the point where my thighs touch, and when I take one step they will immediately bunch up), or too long and look like board shorts. J-Crew style khaki shorts are just a little too yacht-clubby for me. Linen shorts are also too short or too high-waisted, too-tight waisted, or too pleated.

Are there any good options somewhere between teenager-mini-shorts and the confusingly-too-short-yet-also-too-modest-linen-shorts?

I'm 5'8' and about 180 lbs, size 12, so I'm slightly curvy/soft and just slightly on the taller end of the spectrum.

I've been leaning on my bike shorts and athletic shorts; they are comfy and easy to pair with a baggy tee or tank top, but I'd like something a little more put together.

Thank you!!!