The Great Khaki Conundrum

Internet, I need your help. I have a pair of khakis I bought from Ann Taylor Loft a few years ago when I worked at the law office. They might, in fact, be the most expensive khakis I've ever purchased. When I first got them the fit wasn't exactly perfect, but I got them altered and wore the heck out of them.

Then I got a blue ink stain on the thigh and a bog black glob of shoe goo right above the knee. But can't just get rid of these pants. I mean I paid full price for them! And I got them altered. They're good pants!

They've been sitting in my alterations pile for, I don't know, a year? Today was the day they were going to get altered. So I put them on.

I'm not even going to apologize for not wearing make-up. Yes I am. I am so sorry, internet, but desperate times call for desperate measures and this is a sad, sad, desperate mess.

I'm still trying to figure out what to do about the ink stain, but the solution for the goo stain was to simply crop the pants.

That's when I realized I didn't have a plan. Burmuda shorts? Shorts? Cuffed or scalloped? Side vent? Lace inlay?

I have no idea! 

And internet, looking online is not helping because there are so many ways I could go. Check it:

Many ways to wear a pair of cropped khakis from J's Everyday Fashion

Not too short but also might-not-be-women's shorts from Tonic

Not too short, invisible hem shorts from Brown's

Shorter, scalloped short from J. Crew

Suzanne's lace trimmed shorts tutorial from Adventures in Dressmaking

4" chino short from J. Crew

Do you see all the possibilities? And that's only about a third of the ones I thought would work with the slim cut of my pants. I'm putting it into your hands, internet.  What should I do? Which would you do?

Help me please!