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Basically this is the same as a circular skirt, only with an extra bit, so just as my mother's 50s circle skirts hung straight around the hemline, these skirts do, too. The two back panels are sewn together along one of the long sides, so if you were to lay them flat on the floor, they would be a circle with a hole in the middle (and one open seam like a "radius" leading into the middle).
You generally need to hang them for a while to let them drop, then put the skirt on and get someone to mark the hem for you. Women in their 60s and 70s are generally very useful for this work, since, if they were anything like my mother, they knocked a circular skirt up every weekend to wear to their local dance!
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